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...latest craze for teenagers, mostly boys, bike breaking first rode out of the California fadlands. Today urban parks and streets all across the nation spin with the kids' aggressive energy and hair-raising choreography. They have their own argot: "rad" means good; a "squid" or "nipple head" is an awkward rider; "to Wilson" is to fall. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, somebody brings the music -- Phil Collins, Run-D.M.C. -- and somebody else a ramp for the daredevils to soar above, and the showboating begins. Says Dave Vanderspek, 22, the leader of the Curb Dogs Club: "Instead...
...with two UCLA colleagues, Paul Terasaki and Dr. Richard Champlin, and Israeli Specialist Yair Reisner, worked with Soviet doctors under what he called "battlefield" conditions. In all, 299 people, most of them fire fighters and plantworkers, were hospitalized after exposure to estimated levels of radiation that ranged from 100 rads to more than 800 rads. In normal circumstances a person is exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses...
...hard to lose all the time," said Howard, who had earned all-loop honors at wing for Franklin (Mass.) High School. "I was used to winning in high school. I didn't have any friends on the squad here, and was having a tough time with Rad-cliffe in general...
...Rad. Grant-in-Aid Musicals...
...called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...