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From Coyote:

Dear Motorist;

I am a cyclist. As the weather warms and cycling season approaches, I find myself considering the open animosity with which some of you regard me. I hope that most of this animosity stems from a lack of understanding. So maybe if I can help you to understand me a bit better, you won

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Google offers bikes to workers


The Guardian in the UK is repoting that Google is offering employees 2000 bikes and Helmets. The bikes and helmets will be branded with the google logo. How about it Constellation Energy, T Rowe Price, Black and Decker, and Legg Mason, how about offering your employees to bikes so they can get to work?

Personally I would love on the folding bikes so I can take it on the DC Metro during rush hour.

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Fair- and foul-weather cities alike are gearing up to make it safer and easier for commuters to bicycle to work.


Read about what other cities are doing to promote cycling in an article from Governing.

Excerpt:
The biggest lesson for cities, says Clarke, is that a successful bike-commuting policy is a combination of infrastructure, education and promotion. While cities must build the right facilities

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Long-term Recreational Physical Activity and Risk of Invasive and In Situ Breast Cancer


The California Teachers Study
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Results: Invasive breast cancer risk was inversely associated with long-term strenuous activity (>5 vs 0.5 h/wk per year: relative risk, 0.80; 95% confidence interval, 0.69-0.94; P trend = .02), as was in situ breast cancer risk (>5 vs 0.5 h/wk per year: relative risk, 0.69; 95% confidence interval, 0.48-0.98; P trend = .04). Strenuous and moderate long-term activities were associated with reduced risk of ER-negative (strenuous: P trend = .003; moderate: P trend = .003) but not ER-positive (strenuous: P trend = .23; moderate: P trend = .53) invasive breast cancer.

Conclusion: These results support a protective role of strenuous long-term exercise activity against invasive and in situ breast cancer and suggest differing effects by hormone receptor status.

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On Potentially Deadly Streets, Pedestrians and Drivers Alike Must Proceed With Caution


[This article could be written about Baltimore as well.]

by Marc Fisher - Washington Post
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Despite the jokes about how being hit by a bus is the quickest, easiest way to go, the blend of driver arrogance and pedestrian recklessness we've seen on local streets is downright scary. I watch my own kids crossing the street, and I realize that they, like me and probably most of you, too, are alive through some weird combination of luck and a sixth sense about when cars might be hurtling down the street. The kids' necks seem to be wired to turn in one direction at most; looking both ways is far too complex a maneuver.

It's not just kids, of course. I stood at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, where two women were killed by a Metrobus this month, and watched pedestrians. Any relationship between the walk light and when people decided to cross the avenue was purely coincidental.

And the new "Turning Traffic Must Yield to Pedestrians" signs that the District put up for the benefit of Seventh Street motorists could just as well be pictures of a bunny for all the impact they're having.

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