Word: fielding
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Last month I joined a field of 750 registrants for my first century ride, sponsored by New York City's Five Borough Bicycle Club (the 5BBC). Though I took up recreational cycling only a year ago, at age 55, I have gradually increased my endurance, heading out on Saturday and Sunday mornings over the bridges of Manhattan toward beaches and landmarks 20 or more miles away. When the 5BBC announced a century ride to Montauk at the easternmost tip of Long Island in May, my biking buddy Jane and I, with a sense of adventure--and trepidation--mailed...
...right wing prevailed decisively. The SBC then allied itself with the Republican Party, insisted on word-for-word biblical inerrancy and produced a drumbeat of provocative pronouncements on topics like wifely submission and the need to convert Jews. All that remained was for the losers to leave the field...
...with his recent award of a "genius grant," Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Daniel P. Schrag has proven he is an expert in the climate research field...
Schrag said while the money and the award are wonderful, the recognition that his field of study is receiving is even more important...
...Fenway Park: Home field of the much-maligned Boston Red Sox, perennial also-rans to the New York Yankees. Go now--this baseball landmark might be gone by the time you graduate...