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...care system takes more than physicians and politicians. If you really want to get the continent onto its feet, it's increasingly clear that you should also have a good motorcycle mechanic on hand. In a land where roads are often busted, rutted or simply nonexistent, nothing beats a bike for getting medicine to the people and people to the hospital. And nothing beats Riders for Health for seeing to it that that job gets done...
Over the next few years, the threesome set up pilot programs in Uganda and Gambia, where with the support of Save the Children and the local governments, they helped acquire motorcycles and train riders and technicians. In Lesotho they built a fleet of 47 bikes that delivered health-care services from 1991 to 1996 without a breakdown. By the end of that period, the Colemans were running Riders for Health as an independent organization and had expanded into Ghana and Zimbabwe, where they introduced a motorcycle-and-sidecar combination that can be used as a mini-ambulance and double...
...around Sever Hall. “He did everything he could for his fellow guards, he fought to the end,” said his widow, Jacqueline M. McCombe. James K. Herms, a former Extension School student who met McCombe in 2001 when he was reprimanded for riding his bike across the Yard, recalled, “When he was stationed in the Yard he couldn’t walk across without people walking across to meet him and talk to him.” McCombe began working for Harvard as a guard in 1983, when he was placed...
...doesn't take long to find out who's king of the road in Freiburg. "Hey! Are you blind?" shouts an imperious cyclist as a pedestrian ambles into a dedicated cycle path. Bikes, trams and buses whiz through the center of this medieval city, but private cars are conspicuously absent. That's because for the past 20 years, this university town nestled in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany has reduced the use of cars by laying down a lattice of bike paths, introducing a flat-rate fare for all public transport, and expanding bus and tram lines. Commuters from...
...Packers are also the romantic's Dream Team. It's a Wonderful Life gets mentioned in Green Bay stories almost as often as "frozen tundra" and "Titletown, U.S.A." do. Perhaps the best tradition, among the many, in Titletown is the bike ride. Every year on the first day of training camp, local kids ride their bicycles to the practice field, and each player adopts a girl or boy, whose bike he rides from the field to the locker room for the rest of the year. (Some Cowboys apparently have a similar tradition involving "self-employed models...