Biking to beat Huntington's disease

Two women are biking from Thomson to Washington today as part of a longer trip from Wilmington, Del., to Atlanta, The Chronicle says. They're doing it for the Huntington's Disease Society of America. The disease causes degeneration of the brain, and among its victims was folk singer Woody Guthrie, who wrote This Land is Your Land. Read more about it from the National Insitutes of Health Web site.