Word: biking
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...stalking personality. Not in the short film program, but featured before the film Boy Named Sue, is the 13-minute film XXXY by Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh. This emotionally gripping short film centers on two people who were born intersex—Kristi, a bike messenger, and Howard, a clinical psychologist. Their stories share the common pain of being raised after having undergone corrective genital surgery as children. Fighting against a world in which doctors make arbitrary choices about children’s sex and gender, independent of their parents, Kristi...
...think the residents love us," Hohmann says. "A lot of people come here on bike or foot just to take walks and visit the greenhouse and look at plants...
...Richardson "just" maintains his physique ("My bones and joints are 85, so I try to use common sense," he says) with 20 min. of swimming, some weight training, stretching and 200 ab crunches. McManus, who was back in the gym 15 days after a recent bypass operation, rides the bike at the highest resistance for 45 min., then bench-presses...
...weekend warriors who find themselves a little weak on those really steep hills, electric bikes are the perfect answer. You can pedal until you start to poop out, then with the flick of a switch you can give your tired legs a boost from a battery-powered electric motor like the one found in a blender. (The motor works only when you're pedaling, so you're not cheating totally.) Or, if you want to bike to work but don't like to show up for your morning meeting in full sweat, electric bikes can make the ride easier...
While the $1,000 price tag is still a deterrent for most recreational riders, bike shops around the country are seeing a boom in interest. Sales of electric bikes have climbed from just over 1,000 in 1995 to 30,000 last year. Volume is expected to hit 120,000 this year, thanks to growing interest not only among baby boomers discovering they're not so young as they once were but also among teens and young adults. A survey of buyers by Ford Motor company, which makes several models (including one that folds up smaller than a baby stroller...