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...night, a CPD officer took a report from a Cambridge resident who stated that the molding on the driver’s side door of his 1993 Honda Civic had been broken. A second caller reported that an unknown person had stolen his son’s Pacific mountain bike by removing the lock from the back porch. A third caller reported that her 1994 Volvo was stolen from Hunting Street...
...Naropa University Boulder, Colo. --Maharishi University Fairfield, Iowa --Shambhala Mountain Red Feather Lakes, Colo. --Stress Reduction Clinic University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass. --Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Mass. --Spirit Rock Center Woodacre, Calif. --The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society Northampton, Mass...
Heath Woods doesn't get much business these days. A paramedic at Mount Snow in Vermont, he treats injured mountain bikers during the summer. Yet over a four-week stretch during which hundreds of riders braved the mountain's rocky woodland trails and craggy fields, he saw nary a soul. A few years ago, he bandaged half a dozen banged-up riders each weekend. Now, says Woods, 26, "the equipment is so much better, fewer riders are getting hurt...
...Mountain-biking injuries have plummeted since the mid-'90s. About 48,600 people sustained such injuries in 1995, reports the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. In 2001 the figure was 19,500, a 60% drop. In the meantime, ridership has risen 26%, according to the National Sporting Goods Association...
Riders' protective gear is nearly as sophisticated. Body armor once used mainly for dirt-track motorcycle racing has become fashionable among mountain bikers. A $500 body suit from the Italian designer Dainese features protection from the shoulders to the shins, with an aluminum "honeycomb inner structure" to help dissipate body heat...