Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More importantly, though, the system should not even be expected to sustain itself. Mass transit serves a public good from which every citizen, even one who doesn't ride the T, benefits. Public transportation keeps cars off the streets, curbing pollution and traffic. It brings people who don't own a car into the city, including the thousands of students in the metropolitan area. And, though its effect on Boston's quality of life is impossible to gauge, the T certainly contributes to a culture that does not revolve around the automobile the way so much of America does...
...Boston resident reported to CPD that at 1:15 a.m. at Pizzeria Uno in Harvard Square, he was approached by a group of males who asked if he wanted a ride and if he wanted to "get stoned." They dropped him off at a sandpit on Sherman Street and assaulted him. He was kicked in the face, but refused medical treatment for a bloody nose...
That and a dollar fifty, `Zo, will buy you a ride on the E train to Madison Square Garden...
...photo op in the Balkan war zone, they will have to get their snapshots the hard way. When Deputy Secretary of State STROBE TALBOTT flew in to the Macedonian capital of Skopje a few weeks ago in one of the Air Force's Lockheed C-130s, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently and dive the plane to make it harder to hit, tossing...
...your thighs, but it may not be great for other body parts. A new report shows that of female cyclists who clock an average of 60 miles a week, 35% experience genital numbness and 14% have difficulty urinating. Among men, another study finds that 4% of those who ride about 100 miles a week experience erectile dysfunction. Wide bike seats help, as do frequent rest breaks...