Word: kickstands
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...want my bike to look beautiful,” Stith said as she lowered the kickstand, bringing the motorcycle to rest in a spot that offered the right amount of natural light to fully bring out all of her chopper’s delicate beauty...
...born 2 1/2 years ago. "But store owners were on the fence. It didn't blow them away." Eventually, she convinced Babies "R" Us to order the smock, and she has since recouped her initial $25,000 investment. But it's her second invention, the StrollerStand, a kickstand for strollers, that Lowey Luttway, now the mother of two, thinks will be a big success. "If you've ever pushed an umbrella stroller packed with shopping bags, you know the minute you take your kid out, it tips over," she says, speaking from experience...
...drive to the north portico, where Kings and Prime Ministers arrive in purring Rolls-Royces. He had decided beforehand that it was not necessary to bring his padlock. Jones glided right up to the steps. "Best parking place on the grounds," said the delighted cop. The Congressman flicked his kickstand in place, straightened his tie and went in to hear the most powerful man in the world talk about saving energy. Another Carter Administration first...
Most of them are lost in time and space. Many cannot judge distances. Billy, for example, is missing the tip of one finger: he was pointing at the whirling wheel of a bicycle on a kickstand and jammed his finger into the spokes, which had seemed to him at a safe distance. Often they cannot count unless they can touch the objects. Most victims have a tantalizingly short attention span, so that teaching them calls for Job-like patience, but paradoxically they suffer from perseveration -the tendency to keep on saying a word or repeating an action long after...
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