Word: miles
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...rides organized by charities and bike clubs all over the U.S. These rolling events provide measured fun, challenge and physical and psychological support for riders and can raise substantial sums of money for causes such as AIDS, diabetes and MS. Most offer distance options: there's the classic 100-mile century, the 50-mile half-century, the grueling 200-mile double century and, for the internationalist, the 62-mile (or 100-km) metric century...
...rolling out the evidence that free-music enabler Napster is bringing down the American Way, one $15 CD at a time. According to a study conducted by retail-store tracker SoundScan as a supporting brief to the RIAA's copyright-infringement suit against Napster, sales at stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster-induced network overloading - are down 13 percent. The numbers suggest that wherever you put young music lovers together with high-speed Internet access, music sales will suffer...
...cities recently. The granddaughter of the Los Angeles police chief was killed outside a Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits, apparently caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong companion. In a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa., five people died after an immigration lawyer went on a 20-mile shooting rampage. And in New York City, seven people were bound, gagged and shot during a robbery at a Wendy's restaurant, prompting Republican Senate candidate Rick Lazio to call for the death penalty against the suspects...
...Princeton, however, was a tougher foe. Harvard only won three events the first day, including Martin's 10-second victory in the mile, and closed the day down 17 points to the Tigers. The Crimson came out firing the next day. It took the top five spots in the 100 freestyle, led by Waters, tri-captain Ben Rosen and Swinteck. Freshman Erik Patton also won a diving event, upsetting the perennially strong Tiger squad. Harvard finished the meet with a 192.5-160.5 come-from-behind victory...
...back of freshman Lovisa Gustafsson was purple with exhaustion, but her bid for an individual Ivy title was on the line along with the team's pride. Gustafsson, swimming the most grueling event in the sport--the mile--was deadlocked with Princeton's highly touted distance ace Tara Martin...