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That's the way it was in the U.K., at least. In the U.S. - which always had a wilder, frontier relationship with its horses and merely borrowed the sport from the Brits anyway - the rules were looser. American jockeys of the time began wondering what would happen if they did a little work on their own, standing up in the stirrups, bending forward and surfing the motion of the horse as it galloped. What happened was, they went faster - 5% to 7% faster between 1890 and 1900, as more and more riders adopted the idea. That's a huge bump...
...difficult was it to convince your parents to let you do this? They said, "If you want to do it, make it happen." After I bought Intrepid and started getting some sponsorships going, they saw I was serious. They've been really supportive...
What would you tell people who are inspired by your feat but fearful of going through with something similar? It's about getting out there and doing it. Just try your hardest and push to make it happen. It's pretty amazing what...
...disappears from their user profile but not from Twitter's search-engine results. Tweleted uses this loophole to dig up deleted posts. Some Twitter users are crying foul, arguing that when they delete something, it should be gone for good. The company says it's working to make this happen, although setting your Twitter profile to private fixes the issue. For now, it's worth remembering the old adage: If you don't want someone to read it, it's better not to write it - or tweet it - in the first place...
...attacks, in part chalked up to a concerted government campaign to arrest and re-educate extremists. Although the blasts jolted a nation into realizing that terrorism was no longer a thing of the past, the prevailing attitude among Jakartans seemed to be one of determined resilience. "Bad things can happen anywhere - car accidents, illness," says Syarif, an accountant who was window-shopping with his wife and two small children. "The bombing was bad, but we have to continue our lives...