Word: dependence
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Even now you can get an awfully cushy ride--on one of the new high-tech recumbents, which are suddenly taking off in popularity. On this baby, you ride low, spine against a backrest, legs raised to pedal. It does take some getting used to, though, because you depend more on your leg muscles, and the steering and balance can be a bit tricky at first. Recumbent fans swear these roadsters can eliminate every physical obstacle to cycling, from neck pain to sciatica. They're also easier to pedal, Dr. Mirkin explains, because they use the higher, more muscular section...
...many rolls of film to buy, there are a few health precautions you should take to avoid a side trip to the hospital. Anywhere from 20% to 70% of international travelers develop health problems, according to an article in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The risks depend on where you go and whether you take a standard weeklong package tour or trek off the beaten path for weeks of backpacking or biking. But a lot also depends on how well prepared you are and how strictly you follow a few simple rules once you get to your...
Perhaps even more daunting, in the face of Internet-wide virus attacks, is the realization that we will depend in larger and larger measure on the network's functioning reliably. Making this system of millions of networks sufficiently robust and resilient is a challenge for the present generation of Internet engineers. Failure could portend an increasingly fragile future. But I am an optimist. I believe we are going to live in a world abundant with information and with the tools needed to use it wisely...
...masters will depend, more than anything else, the success of the project. The atmosphere, the aspirations, the enjoyment of the Houses, will take their tone from them," President Lowell wrote...
...Andrew J. Ehrlich '96-'97, PBHA's president in 1996, says it is an "inevitable fact" that administrators conveniently or intentionally "depend on the quick turnover of students" to enact changes in student organizations...