Word: comfortes
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...When some of us read of such an upside-down society, we sit back in the comfort of our apartments and think, "There but for the grace of God (or India's millions of gods, or luck) go I! At least I live in safety and have more than the one room that is the most that 73% of Bombay families can enjoy." Yet the thrust of Mehta's book, and studies like it, is that every city in the world is being reclaimed by the countryside and, with it, by a more tribal, atavistic form of law and order...
...took her to a nearby clinic on Sept. 2, nurses dismissed her illness as a common cold. Five days later Sakuntala was back in the clinic, unable to walk and vomiting blood. She was sent to the district hospital, and her mother, Pranee Thongchan, was summoned from Bangkok to comfort her. Pranee kissed and held her through the last night of her life, and Sakuntala was cremated two days later. Doctors there never diagnosed the child with bird...
...healthy alternative for women who don't want to slog around all day in sneakers or orthopedic clodhoppers? Nowadays the answer is a resounding yes. Over the past three years, nearly every major shoemaker has begun designing with one eye on fashion and the other keenly fixed on comfort and health. DKNY and Amalfi of Italy have crafted dress shoes with new technology like Insolia, a system invented by a podiatrist that shifts weight from the front of the shoe back to the heel, making high heels feel more like flats. At the same time, old standbys in the comfort...
...decades ago, the typical comfort-shoe customer was a 50-year-old who wanted a pull-on number with a gummy sole. Today traditional comfort brands like Aerosoles count among their clients college kids drawn in by hip T-strap sandals, go-go boots with 3-in. heels and mock-croc peep-toes adorned with silver buckles...
Meanwhile, new companies are striving to take the comfort-shoe niche a step further by using technologies borrowed from the athletics and aerospace industries. Oh! Shoes, based in Portland, Ore., has been launched in a few test markets this fall, and features a multiple-contour foot bed and a six-part shock-absorption system in the heel. Company founder and CEO Greg Van Gasse says the heel technology took 1 1/2 years to perfect and reduces shock more than 30%. The shoes' aesthetic, however, still needs a little work...