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Want a piece of the cutthroat running-shoe market, dominated by big brands like Nike, Adidas and Reebok? Try giving your sneakers some steroids. Spira Footwear, a four-year-old company based in El Paso, Texas, makes the world's only shoes with actual springs in the soles. The springs act as shock absorbers, reducing the stress on your feet. Spiras feel so good, they're illegal--at least to some. USA Track & Field, which sanctions some 4,000 road races each year, has banned Spiras for violating Rule 143 (3)(a), which states that "no spring ... may be incorporated...
What's the biggest difference between filming an indie like Napoleon and a studio movie like Heaven? Uh, Reese Witherspoon. Actual movie stars...
McCartney knows that he didn't rise to his place in the pop firmament by pushing the envelope. "I'm not a rebel," he says. "In actual fact, I'm pretty straight, and I don't mind at all that people see me that way." Still, he seems to have turned a musical corner. When he thinks about the U.S. tour he will launch Sept. 16 in Miami, he says, "It'll be great not to be out there with a crap album, singing songs I don't care much about." And if audiences still mostly pine for another roundelay...
They started out as Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks, morphed into Bob Dylan's swaggering backup group and then struck out on their own, which makes the Band one of the few outfits actually constrained by mere five-disc treatment. Among the 37 previously unreleased tracks, there's a hysterically loose version of Highway 61 Revisited as well as a gospel take on The Weight powered by the Staples. All the Band's hits are included, but the most revealing are the "song sketches," quiet recordings that reveal the origins of the propulsive sound that followed. There are also 108 pages...
...pork-belly futures. When the prime purpose of a house or condo becomes hedging instead of living, they argue, it eventually loses the cachet of residential and community stability that keeps property values strong in the long term. "If there is no sincere interest or care about the actual use of the property," says Robins, "it won't be worth that much over time. It jeopardizes the market." In an exchange this month on the Inman News website, a leading real estate news service, a prospective Las Vegas condo buyer told columnist Robert J. Bruss he didn't like...