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Even more improvements are on the way for this expanding market. Roger Minkow, M.D., who created the Body Geometry saddle for Specialized bike and component maker, will soon be offering another ergonomic design: a rubber grip on handlebars with a built-in suspension system to eliminate vibration on your ulnar nerve, which extends from the underside of your forearm to your pinkie and ring finger. When you grasp the handlebars long and hard, you pinch this nerve. Result: ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bikes Are Back......Bigtime | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...truncheons seemed excessive. Marta Manojlovic was already on the ground--helpless and bleeding from a head wound--when the Serb cops worked her over with the hard rubber batons. As she faded into unconsciousness, the cops started in with the kicks, as if her midsection was an errant soccer ball. Manojlovic is 17, and small for her age. But she disturbs the security men who are responsible for keeping Slobodan Milosevic jammed into power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gen Y Revolution | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...charges of assaulting two other women he met in an S&M chat room. His livelihood was criminal as well, according to District Attorney Paul Morrison of Johnson County, Kans., who paints a portrait of an intelligent and agile criminal who wove a tapestry of fraudulent deals, rubber checks and phony companies. "He had no real employment, unless you consider figuring out ways of scamming people out of their money to be real employment," says Morrison. Between 1969 and 1991, Robinson was convicted at least four times of embezzlement. He then allegedly used his financial gains to snare young women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bodies in the Barrels | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...American guy. Here you can always tell who's gay. In Paris I can't. There, straight guys wear rubber jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Sedaris | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...last Tuesday, as I finished a lovely still life of Liquid Paper and Rubber Band Ball, I missed Jovon. He's nonchalant, slick, adored by his female classmates and doesn't have to resort to impugning his own manhood to make people laugh. I guess I liked hanging out with him because he's all the things I wish I was. Though I'd miss him a lot more if he were just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Spent Two Years Researching This Column | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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