Word: bike
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...Rios" '07 House: Pforzheimer Concentration: Psych (shoulda been VES) Hometown: Brooklyn, New York City. Ideal Date: We bike somewhere far to listen to music and exchange our drawings and manifestos. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Just come up and say hello. I’m pretty shy and oblivious to most things. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Most Saturday nights end with me eating nachos from the Pfoho grill and listening to Hector Lavoe right before I fall asleep. First thing you notice about a girl: Her voice and intonation. Your best pick...
...Will Ferrell. Chris Henchy, a writer and producer who works at Ferrell's production company, said it bought the film rights to King Dork because of the darkly comedic way Portman captured how hard high school is. "There's nothing funnier than biking to your first sexual experience," Henchy says. "Do you know how far you will ride on your bike for your first sexual experience? There is no answer. Because you will just continue to go." And the video clip that Portman, experienced at self-promoting from years in an indie band, put on YouTube to publicize his book...
...might think riding in a taxi would expose you to less air pollution than you would get walking down a city sidewalk, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Researchers at Imperial College London gave volunteers particulate detectors and had them walk, bike, drive, bus or taxi their way up and down streets in central London, taking a total of 584 individual trips. To everyone's surprise, riding in a taxi resulted in the worst exposure--nearly twice as much as walking. The suggested explanation: taxis tend to get stuck in traffic surrounded by other pollution-belching vehicles...
...This isn’t a dress! It doesn’t have workable seams! It doesn’t have zippers! It’s made entirely from recycled bike shorts!” I said, as she dragged me by my leg into the dressing room, which consisted of a see-through curtain and a neon light and looked vaguely like somewhere Jared Leto could be found shooting up heroin...
...drives slower - ever accelerating past 55 miles per hour in her Honda Civic. Another 2,500 pounds lost, plus a boost in her mileage up to 39 miles per gallon. Finally, the family devised a new commute plan that enabled her husband and her daughter to ride their bikes to work and school. They also bought an electric bike and that shaved off some more poundage - totaling a loss of 7,600 in transportation emissions. All told, these changes amount to 21,000 pounds of carbon weight loss annually...