Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country bicycles are the best method of transportation. While the cost of having a car is prohibitive, used bikes can be purchased cheaply or rented for a couple rupees (20 cents) a day. In the foothills or mountains, however, the only way to get there is to walk. Most of the Himalayan area is cut off in summer as well as winter. This part of the country, still one of the remotest areas of the world, is about as hard to traverse today as it was for the early Tibetans on their way to the Valley of Nepal...
...college, and another who does yoga every night before she goes to bed. Three other sons were kicked out of school for wearing their hair too long--Dan and his wife Margaret went to the ACLU and got it all fixed up. Margaret is getting a college degree. Walk into their house and The New York Times is on the table, near books by Eldridge Cleaver and Philip Roth, near Joan Baez records. The Sizemores loved John Kennedy and hated Johnson, hate Nixon. Once they alienated all their neighbors when they had a black friend of one of the kids...
...face persists. His left arm has responded somewhat to whirlpool baths and manipulation therapy, but it is still not usable (Douglas is right-handed). Worse, his left leg shows few signs of response. TIME has learned that his physicians now think it possible that the great outdoorsman will never walk again...
...Douglas a long time," says one friend. "He's got an iron will and may never quit. But he's also very proud, and might find it difficult to carry on when he's obviously not the man he once was-when he can't walk onto the bench on his own power...
Lloyd noted that the females' responses to certain Photuris males are similar to the flashes the females give off when they walk, land or take flight. Perhaps these "locomotion" flashes were gradually modified to attract males of different species. In any event, the Photuris' wide range of mimicry suggests to Lloyd that the lowly firefly has a more complex brain than entomologists ever suspected...