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...North Carolina Anthropologist Louise Robbins applies the same procedures used on prehistoric footprints to modern mysteries. "There are 46 points of measurement and 120 points to examine for shape," she says. "I have not yet found even so-called identical twins with absolutely identical foot prints." She can identify barefoot prints as well as match a shoe to its wearer. Says Robbins: "If you'll check your shoes, you can see the marks for your toes...
...lure back any faltering readers who do not want to hear about how Detroit is really and truly a "Renaissance City" (and not just another car slum), or about how much better one team is than another, or even how amazing it is that the Forty-Niners have a barefoot kicker, I would like to say that my Super Bowl topic concerns my blond and beautiful California roommate. Want to read a little bit further? I thought you would...
...asks Publisher Douglas, "should the cobbler go barefoot?" Why, indeed...
...banks of the Red River but in Old Mexico. The grandees who first brought cattle and horses to the New World in the 1500s considered livestock tending beneath their dignity. However, the powerful padres of the Mexican mission system found the first cowboys in their congregations: Indians and Negroes. Barefoot and illiterate, these early vaqueros were often not allowed even to own the horses they rode. North of the border, cowboys were hardly better off; slaves riding mules sometimes tended Louisiana herds. In California, though Franciscans taught Indians to herd steers from the saddle, their problem was that the braves...
...cafeteria. But in the decades that followed, the rivalries waned. The festival has nurtured a range of choreography-Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, José Limon and Pilobolus. Now held on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C., the 47-year-old A.D.F. is a raucous gathering of the barefoot clans. Even ballet is now taught as part of the curriculum for the 230 multinational students of new dance...