I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.

CNN: Thompson's September 7, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa

Teens design pedal-powered filtration system: High-schoolers Payton Karr and Kiona Elliot , from Oakland Park, Florida , led a team of inventors who designed a collapsible, transportable, bicycle-powered emergency water-sanitation station that filters E. coli and other harmful pathogens from contaminated water.

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People often ask me what to wear in order to be comfortable riding a bicycle in temperatures that could freeze boiling water before it hit the ground.

NPR: Subzero Biker Checks In

We are just beginning to see the results of the long and successful effort to reclaim the Hudson River waterfront for public use in the river-front gardens and promenades of Lower Manhattan and the tree- and rose-lined bicycle and running paths that have transformed the water's edge on West Street.

WSJ: New York Stadium Deals: Good and Bad

What brings me back is a collection of specifically New England sensations that I associate with the place: free-wheeling a bicycle down a sandy beach road, the tang of lemon on fried clams, the clear green water of the north Atlantic and the pure maritime light.

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