Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't designed to swing a golf club. A 1996 study showed both professional and amateur golfers generating "peak spinal compression loads" of 6,000 newtons (a measure of gravitational force). That's the equivalent of eight times an individual's standing body weight. These back-crunching levels are "close to the known failure loads associated with lumbar intervertebral joints," concludes Thomas P. Headman, a biomechanical engineer at the University of Southern California...
...conclusion: no ice cream is perfect. But the Square and surroundings have a lot that come pretty dran close...
...spent my middle school summers at a small all-boys camp hidden away on Lake Winnipesaukee in the New Hampshire mountains, far removed from any semblance of civilization or technology. It was as close to the stereotypical "summer camp" as it could be--I learned how to shoot a rifle, launch a bow and arrow, light a campfire and swim the butterfly...
...conclusion: no ice cream is perfect. But the Square and surroundings have a lot that come pretty darn close...
...cool off close to home, the fountain in front of the Science center is perfect. Prance on top of the fountain's rocks, but, be warned, the misty appearance is deceptive--if you plan to go in with you clothes on, remember that the fountain is significantly wetter than it looks...