COVER STORY WRITTEN BY ELI SANDERS PHOTOGRAPHED BY HARLEY SOLTES
ON THE COVER: Bike messengers are freewheeling blurs across town that keep the corporate status quo intact.

PLANT LIFE Hard Workers They survived the summer swelter to offer us color and interest when other plants lag. NORTHWEST LIVING A Profusion Of Berry, Bush and Bloom Lynn and Ralph Davis add perfume to the salt air in their sloping, seaside garden.

ON FITNESS Stretch It Workouts to do at your desk that give new meaning to the term multi-tasking. NOW & THEN Tracking the Takeoff

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