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Even now you can get an awfully cushy ride--on one of the new high-tech recumbents, which are suddenly taking off in popularity. On this baby, you ride low, spine against a backrest, legs raised to pedal. It does take some getting used to, though, because you depend more on your leg muscles, and the steering and balance can be a bit tricky at first. Recumbent fans swear these roadsters can eliminate every physical obstacle to cycling, from neck pain to sciatica. They're also easier to pedal, Dr. Mirkin explains, because they use the higher, more muscular section...
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...
...astonishment of the White House, which just weeks ago had been using Kim as Example A of a "rogue dictator" while trying to convince Russia of the value of a missile-defense shield. It's too early to be sure that the new Kim is for real. The makeover, though, does seem to have legs. It's not really that Kim is such a different guy--his charmingly opportunistic streak once helped him extort billions from foreign governments in exchange for capping his nukes program. It's that his interests--and the world around him--have changed for good...
...trying. He recently ordered the release of Sheik Abdessalam Yassine after 10 years of house arrest. Hassan II hounded the Islamist leader for years, even putting him in a mental hospital after Yassine wrote an open letter to the King denouncing his alleged unholy behavior. Mohammed VI acted, even though Yassine continues to question the King's religious authority...
Mammograms have saved the lives of tens of thousands of women over the past 20 years. Though mammograms are not perfect, their ability to detect small tumors gives doctors and their patients the option of treating the cancer while it is in an early, more curable stage. And yet by the time even a small tumor is picked up on a mammogram, odds are it has been growing for five to seven years. What if doctors could find even younger (and therefore presumably easier to treat) breast tumors? That's the question that a group of researchers asked themselves...