Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riders near Vail, Colo., who take helicopters to the high country or ride the ski lifts up the mountains and then charge through the backcountry trails. "I got into mountain biking to escape," says Jonathan Nardone, 34, a pinball-machine repairman from West Islip, N.Y., who bikes in New England. "I deal with people all day long and want to get into nature...
...Mount Snow Mountain Bike School in Vermont teaches cyclists how to negotiate the loose gravel, mud surfaces and obstacles of mountain paths, as well as offering lessons in map reading and bike maintenance. "I thought I was just going for a bike ride on back roads in New England," says Connecticut Insurance Consultant Karen Daly, 29. "They teach you how to jump logs, and we rode through a ski trail with grass up to your waist, wildflowers...
Though pedaling 80 miles a day on hilly New England roads may not seem especially restful, the popularity of bicycle vacations is soaring. Vermont Country Cyclers, founded in 1980, has been growing between 30% and 40% a year. Travelers can ride for a day or a week, with a van driving along behind to carry luggage and give a lift to the lagging. "Someone once described it as credit-card camping," says Feldman, who is planning a trip this month with a rival outfit, Vermont Bicycle Touring. "You get to go out and see everything, then eat the gourmet food...
Sound familiar? In fact, the Soviet Union may face a graver problem this year than the one in the U.S., where medical debris and sewage have washed up on beaches around New York City and New England. Authorities, for example, outlawed swimming last month in the Sea of Azov, 600 miles south of Moscow, after a local sewage system accidentally spilled raw waste into the water not once but twice...
...Weasel, Slippery Mick, Flying Pharaoh & Co. are the sobriquets of truck drivers who make the overland shuttle from England to Saudi Arabia, carrying heavy machinery to and cheap petroleum fro. Several years ago, British Journalist Robert Hutchison enlisted in the small army of these diesel gypsies, sharing their home cooking and their raunchy exploits. Aside from engine trouble and the occasional stray bullet, his lively memoir records few acknowledgments of the 20th century. Ancient hostilities persist, and bribery remains endemic. Still, customs inspectors prefer modern baksheesh. At one checkpoint, the presentation of a girly magazine "got us all waved...