Challenge: Walk to Franklin High School from any nearby subdivision. You're disqualified if you are grazed by a vehicle.
From The Daily Sprawl, this quote - read and then guess who might have said it:
The age of leisure and abundance can destroy vigor and muscle tone as effortlessly as it can gain time. Today human activity, the labor of the human body, is rapidly being engineered out of working life. By the 1970’s, according to many economists, the man who works with his hands will be almost extinct.
Many of the routine physical activities which earlier Americans took for granted are no longer part of our daily life. A single look at the packed parking lot of the average high school will tell us what has happened to the traditional hike to school that helped to build young bodies. The television set, the movies and the myriad conveniences and distractions of modern life all lure our young people away from the strenuous physical activity that is the basis of fitness in youth and in later life.
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John F. Kennedy writing an article for Sports Illustrated entitled "The Soft American"
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