Word: biked
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...Friday, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a report from a caller who had observed two men acting suspiciously by the bike rack in front of the entrance to Eliot, HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said...
...caller observed a third individual sitting in van with a bike visible inside...
...Most importantly, we ask people to keep an eye on the bike rack when going in and out of their dorms,” Catalano said, lauding Eliot’s “vigilant community member who saw what they thought was suspicious and gave us a call...
...helmet is probably the most cost-effective safety device ever made, and yet only 41% of kids ages 5 to 14 wear one while on bikes, scooters or skates, according to a study by the National Safekids Campaign. And even among those who do, 35% wear them improperly--a tragic lapse, considering that head injuries account for 80% of bike-related fatalities...
This focus on the little things tends to lose site of the big picture, though. Over the course of his standing in the shower, not feeding the cat, falling off his bike, etc. we learn that Kochalka and his wife are trying to have a baby. Whatever sort of important discussions they may have had about this are only cursorily touched on in the "diary." Even the moment they learn she is pregnant goes unrecorded. We have to infer it from a strip about her morning sickness. But the delights of the book are in Kochalka's endearingly quirky personality...