Word: bike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What I enjoyed most about my conversations with John Campbell was that they hardly existed. We spoke--at the post office, at the village store, whenever he pulled over to the curb on his bike--two, three times a month. But we said very little. In the still, blank autumn afternoons like these, our silence abetted the season. One of us would open with some typically male, moderately hearty greeting; the other would follow with an observation about essentially nothing, like the lowering sky; the other would grunt or nod; John would pedal away, and that would be that...
Jerry Cross, 68, is a professional photographer in Racine, Wis., whose mother, father and grandmother all lived into their 90s. "If I'm going to live that long, I don't want to be in a wheelchair," says Cross. He's determined to stay active, but a 100-mile bike ride three years ago damaged one of his knees, and a fall during a camping trip last year injured his back. Now he does yoga every day and says it helps him sleep better and feel less stiff when he gets up. "I don't think I'll ever stop...
...their kids earn some. Ryan, 17, has been mowing lawns since he was 8, and now owns his own equipment. He has managed to stash away $7,800 at his parents' urging. In addition to saving that amount, Ryan was able to splurge on a dirt bike and an impressive sound system. He's eyeing a Ferrari, despite his father's advice that a car is a bad investment. Ryan shrugs off the idea that he might resent having to make his own money when so many other kids are given cash freely by their parents. "Some kids have...
...planted a picture frame in Sandy's room of both of them as babies. "I actually called Sandy's mom and put it together. I got a lot of points for that." Sandy also remembers that it was cute that she taught Danny "how to ride a bike because he had a demented childhood where he never learned...
...more seriously. Mainstream athletes make so much money, it's just a job for them," says Jonathon Meir, 14, of Incline Village, Nev. His friend Tyler McPherron, 14, adds that he associates football with "a bunch of old guys sitting on the couch and drinking beer." Snowboard and mountain-bike legend Shaun Palmer agrees, pointing out that individualistic extreme sports are "a lot better than going to football practice every day and having your coach yell...