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...still can, if you like, make jokes about the cross-country ski team, which will get buried in ice chips. It's not the team's fault. The worst-kept secret this side of bike racing is that the best cross-country skiers, seeking superhuman endurance, are often druggies. "If you take the results page and look at the Top 30," says Justin Wadsworth, 33, who will compete in his third Games at Salt Lake City, "up to 40% could possibly be dopers ... It almost makes me sick." Last year six Finns failed drug tests at the world championships. Rest...
Yesterday I saw a biker on DeWolfe Street talking to the driver of a car next to him. “Why did you overtake me and then turn right in front of me?” he asked. I immediately knew what had transpired: Biker in the bike lane on Mt. Auburn Street, car overtakes biker and makes an immediate right, biker slams on brakes and, if is lucky, avoids missing car. It has happened to me. You can’t see the car’s blinker—if it’s on?...
...bike, incidentally, is fine...
...know most of you (my readers) don’t drive. But maybe, at home over break, you will. Maybe you will be slaloming around the city streets. Even if you aren’t, even if your parents cart you from place to place, if you walk or bike, you can spread the message to those around you: Be careful, considerate, cautious. As the Hippocratic oath goes, first, do no harm. This, the holiday season, is the time we traditionally take to cherish those around us. We would do well also to remember, everyday, that we have each others?...
...organized. To Kamen's way of thinking, the problem is the automobile. "Cities need cars like fish need bicycles," he says. Segways, he believes, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly. "A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk," he argues. "Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it's like being hit by another pedestrian." By traveling at three...