1.   Another ski train began last winter linking Manhattan with Lake Placid, N.Y., and other northern resort towns in the state.

2.   Last week, school authorities in Belgium scrapped ski trips to Austrian resorts and a Belgian tourism trade fair canceled an invitation to the northern Austrian resort of Scharding.

3.   She reportedly died after an asthmatic attack in the northern resort city of Ching Mai, where she was vacationing with a French male friend.

4.   This has driven casinos such as Reef Casino in Cairns, a northern resort city, into the red.

5.   A British woman drowned while scuba diving off the coast of the northern Jamaican resort town of Negril, police said Wednesday.

6.   A giant slalom is set for Saturday in this northern Swedish resort.

7.   A year ago, Koznick captured her first World Cup slalom here and she also scored her first World Cup points in this northern Swedish resort six years ago.

8.   Arafat was interviewed in Cernobbio, a northern Italian resort, where he was participating in an international conference of business and political leaders.

9.   Barak praised frontier residents as heroes and called upon Israelis to visit northern resorts, which have been badly hit economically by the fighting.

10.   Corinne Niogret waved a French flag as she skied, unchallenged, through the final stretch in this northern resort.