Word: massed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...bike. The industry's fastest-growing category, comfort bikes now make up 40% of the line at Raleigh and are becoming standard for other makers. "They've combined the technology of mountain bikes with the surefootedness of the Eisenhower-era models," observes Paul Rinehart of Spoke Bicycles in Williamstown, Mass. Some companies even make comfort tandems, which boomers are buying in droves, often to lure less fit partners into riding along while fostering togetherness...
...million South Koreans have relatives in the North. Who gets to go? Most perplexing of all, where does one start in trying to meld North Korea's Stone Age economy with the Internet-savvy South. Then there's the issue the two leaders merely flirted with: the weapons of mass destruction that Pyongyang uses to threaten the rest of the world. Warns Victor Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University in Washington: "Handshakes and hugs and delightful small talk are all very nice. But all the tougher issues are still out there...
...Dear Leader has realized there's no future in being a rogue. It's a message Kim seems to have absorbed. The smiling fellow who waved his South Korean partner goodbye at week's end was already looking less like a wacko in search of a weapon of mass destruction and more like a grandfather in search...
...says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers Weekly. "The high-profile memoirs by famous people haven't done well, [but] there's been an increase in the common-man type of memoir." Novelist Martin Amis writes in his own new memoir Experience, "We live in the age of mass loquacity. We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience--so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed." Thus the modern appeal of the real: journalists pepper their reports with...
...Wigglesworth, the Yard's most oddly shaped dorm, consists of several unconnected sections strung out along busy Mass. Ave. Wigglesworth residents may never meet the students in their neighboring entries. If the dorm lacks cohesiveness, however, it scores high points for quality of living. Its spacious triple and quadruple suites have a close-up view of lively street activity, and traffic quiets down late a night so residents can sleep. Wigg is also the most recently renovated first-year dorm...