Word: biking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popularity of biking has been hampered by the problem of transporting a team of cyclers and their equipment to competition. A more pressing problem is that of expense, since a new racing bike can cost anywhere from a few hundred to well over a thousand dollars...
...instruments and experts agree that there are often painful pitfalls on the rigorous road to glowing health. Pick up a racket, and you run the risk of a sprained ankle, twisted knee or tennis elbow. Condition your heart by pumping over hill and dale on a racing bike with low-slung handle bars, and you can come up with chronic low back pain. Play softball and be prepared for torn knee ligaments and broken fingers...
...gray afternoon last April, 6-ft. 10-in. Crimson basketball center Bob McCabe leaned on his bike in the empty doorway of unfinished Briggs Cage...
...Exhibitionism 9 14 Bomb threat 6 8 Less than $100 590 698 Assault 37 35 Voyeurism 0 1 Breaking&entering 78 59 Burglary 6 10 Robbery 10 14 Obscene call 77 138 Trespassing 64 57 Auto theft 83 102 Rape 5 4 Other 0 1 Vandalism 243 301 Bike theft 242 255 Other 3 1 Bldg.take-over 0 0 Other 3 7 Other 4 2 (Includes all areas within a five-minute walking distance of Harvard...
...things delight subscribers-or editors-of medical journals more than accounts of new and weird ailments. Over the years readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...