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What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? To leap over handicap-access ramps like Donkey Kong? The answer is parkour, a jaw-dropping hybrid of gymnastics and cross-country running that is equal parts Spider-Man whimsy and hard-core stamina. The word is derived from the French term for obstacle course, and like it or not, U.S. college campuses are becoming hot spots for this exhilarating new breed of steeplechase--horse-free and adaptable to any setting. Google parkour, campus and map, and you'll find, among some 58,000 results, an annotated parkour...
With the completion of the construction, Quincy will join Currier and Pforzheimer as the most handicap accessible Houses, University Disability Coordinator Marie Trottier said...
...Edward's new benefactor is Peg Boggs, sweet-souled and steel-willed, who somehow convinces her family to accept and house this odd fellow with digital utensils. Peg's neighbors, naturally skeptical of having a monster next door, soon realize that Edward's handicap is also an asset: his scissorhands can sculpt trees into topiary, reshape poodles into dog-show winners and fashion chic hairdos for the ladies. One woman in particular, the vampish Joyce, gets kinda kinky over this man in black with the super-long fingernails, and has a vigorous erotic go at Edward. But his devotion...
...League and a No. 4 national ranking the USFCA Coaches’ Poll. The youth movement has been led by Goldfeder, who has fenced much of the spring season with a nagging thumb injury on her weapon hand. The Rochester N.Y. native, apparently unfazed by the handicap, placed first in this past weekend’s IFA Individual Championship for women’s foil as Harvard won its third consecutive IFA three-weapon title. “You never know what even an experienced fencer is going to do for you in the first year,” Brand...
...beating Tobe with a long-range shot from the right point. “I think maybe in the first period we kind of took a little bit of a wait-and-see attitude,” Donato said, citing the missing Bulldog stars as a possible psychological handicap. “I think they dictated the play a little bit more than we did in the first period.” Once the game entered the second frame, however, it belonged to the Crimson—and specifically to Reese, who capitalized on a series of Bulldog penalties...