Doral: A New Brand in Snowsports (our questions on the MeriStar-ASC merger that was not to be); Dept. of Utterly Useless Statistics (wherein David estimates $4.1 billion has been spent industrywide on snowmaking since 1950); Colorado's Lynx: A Report Card; Area Expansion? You Flunk Enviro Test (first Ski Area Coalition report card and NSAA Enviro Charter); Spike in Consequences of Recklessness (Nathan Hall convicted); Vertical Bragging Rights Resolved (Killington correct's its Website to read "greatest in New England," Whiteface has greatest in East).