A WALK ON THE MILD SIDE.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Back in our glory years, Eugene Eugene, city (1990 pop. 112,669), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a farming area, the "Emerald City" has lumbering, food-processing, and microchip and other electronics industries. used to be known as Track Town USA. We've we've Contraction of we have. we've have apparently begun to slow down a bit with age. On Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant , this onetime one-time adj. 1. or one·time a. Occurring or undertaken only once: a one-time winner in 1995. b. running capital was named to the No. 8 spot on a list of the Best Walking Cities in America for 2005. We came in just behind New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , where people walk because they don't have cars, and just ahead of Jersey City, N.J., where people walk because their cars have just been stolen. Arlington, Va. - home to subway-riding bureaucrats of Washington, D.C. - came in first place. Laredo, Texas, where much of the population prefers to travel by horseback, was dead last at No. 200. The list was put out by the American Podiatric Medical Association to encourage American city dwellers "to get out and walk in an effort to keep their feet and bodies fit." And, no doubt, to give us all a good reason to see our neighborhood podiatrists. The APMA APMA American Podiatric Medical Association APMA Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association APMA Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association APMA American Preventive Medical Association APMA Australian Packaging Machinery Association rated the nation's 200 largest cities by such criteria as the number of people who exercise daily and the number of people taking public transportation to and from their jobs. "One of the reasons why Eugene ranked fairly high is because of the active lifestyles that the residents lead," said Amie Haer, a cheerful spokeswoman for the APMA. "And they get to work by walking or taking public transportation." She hadn't heard about the bus strike. "Maybe even more people are walking now," she said brightly. BEST WALKING CITIES OF 2005 As rated by the American Podiatric Medical Association 1. Arlington, Va. 2. San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 3. Seattle 4. Portland 5. Boston 6. Washington, D.C. 7. New York City 8. Eugene 9. Jersey City, N.J. 10. Denver More info: www.apma.org CAPTION(S): The American Podiatric Medical Association has named Eugene No. 8 on its list of the nation's Top 10 Best Walking Cities of 2005, partly because of the active lifestyles of local residents. |
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