Word: biking
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...requests. Leathers can be quite obliging: he built a wooden Alamo, equipped with an armadillo-shaped drawbridge, for a Dallas elementary school and fashioned a crude telephone system out of three-inch plastic piping for Hamilton, Va. Safety considerations, however, usually force him to reject water slides, underground tunnels, bike racetracks and skateboard ramps...
...also said that the mere fact that Shawn stayed away so long, despite apparent freedom to use the phone and ride his bike, was proof to him that something "awful" had happened to him during those years. In addition, both parents said yesterday that they fear the reason Devlin may have taken Ownby was because he may have had an unhealthy obsession with younger boys. "That is what keeps crossing my mind," Craig Akers said. "We're just grateful that they found them so soon after Ben got there...
...Glendale Police Chief Richard Black, says Shawn was riding his bike home from friends when he was stopped by a police officer at 11:23 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. He was wearing dark clothes and had no lights. The officer asked him where he was going, he was going home to his "father" and used the named Shawn Devlin. "Shawn did not respond to initial questions, so the officer asked him to get off his bike." He was about a mile to mile-and-a-half from Devlin?s home, and the police officer - it appears from...
...hasn't been easy. "The dog ate one of my cycling gloves," says Kesel, who gets around the city on a bike. "If I'm patient, a used pair will turn up in someone's garage." Compacters surf through websites such as Freecycle and PaperBackSwap. They troll thrift shops and swap meets. One of the founders, a Silicon Valley marketer, found a sewing machine and a 10-ft. artificial Christmas tree on Craigslist - both free. Another couple got free mis-mixed paint from hardware stores and made do with a second-hand shower curtain. New underwear is allowed...
...Four. Remove the derelict bikes that line Plympton St. It’s happened to us all at least once: rushing up Plympton on our way to class, we step a little bit too freely, one of the bikes topples over, and everyone stares. No one wants to be that kid. And the sidewalk is hardly wide enough for two people to pass, let alone pass around a bike with a crooked seat and two bent tires. We propose that the bikes be sold by the University, to facilitate our next wish?...