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...Geometry saddle for Specialized bike and component maker, will soon be offering another ergonomic design: a rubber grip on handlebars with a built-in suspension system to eliminate vibration on your ulnar nerve, which extends from the underside of your forearm to your pinkie and ring finger. When you grasp the handlebars long and hard, you pinch this nerve. Result: ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bikes Are Back......Bigtime | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...have a moment we can grasp, for we have been extraordinarily fortunate in the timing of our campaign," Knowles said late last year. "We can't stand still. Standing still is not an option...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Crowning Year: Capital Campaign Wraps Up | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson has much to look forward to. Still an incredibly young team, Harvard has a significant amount of time to gain skills and improve. But the short-term goals--namely, regaining the Ivy League title--will certainly be within grasp...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Tennis' Five-Year Ivy Reign Ends | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...specific goals--child-proofing hand-guns, more comprehensive background checks at gun shows, and strictly enforcing existing gun laws. These are measures long advocated by the gun-control lobby, but with the force of mothers behind them, Congress may finally find the strength to free itself from the moneyed-grasp...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Not a Million, But a March To Remember | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

Like anyone who dashes off an angry e-mail, the flamers and the virus writers often don't see the consequences of what they're doing. They are simply lashing out at what they often perceive as the big, greedy, distant, corporatized world. They don't quite grasp that the entities on the other end are human beings whose feelings can be hurt and whose personal and work lives can be disrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are These Guys? | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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