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...study examines how runners coped with the force of collision on their feet before the introduction of the modern running shoe in the 1970s. Comparing habitually barefoot runners with shoe-wearing runners, Lieberman and his fellow researchers found that runners who run with footwear tended to land on their heels, while runners who run barefoot tended to land on the front or middle parts of their feet...
However, there are certainly aspects of this new development that deserve praise. The mailings provide colleges with a novel new form of advertising, exposing students to institutions they might have otherwise ignored. Bright students might discover that great universities are not found only on the front page of U.S. News and World Report; as a result, lesser-known schools could attract more intellectually gifted students who might otherwise base college decisions on name recognition alone. Similarly, waiving the application fee attracts students who find the cost of applying to college prohibitively high, which increases the accessibility of higher education...
...wage a violent "offensive jihad" rather than a "defensive jihad" and taught that "every Muslim should have a weapon and not be afraid to use their weapon when needed." In January 2009, when Detroit officials evicted the Ummah from its mosque for failure to pay property taxes, police found firearms, knives and martial-arts weapons inside Abdullah's apartment, which was apparently inside the mosque. Authorities say the group participated in an extensive theft ring: in February 2009, for instance, Abdullah allegedly went to Chicago to obtain fur coats he believed were stolen, then brought them to Michigan. Abdullah...
Correction: The original version of the story had Wayne County medical examiner Carl Schmidt saying the imam's hands were cuffed behind his back at the time of the shooting. The story clarifies that what Schmidt said was that at the time the imam's body was found, his hands were cuffed...
...former head of testing Henri Perrier and former chief engineer Jacques Herubel as well as France's retired civil aviation chief Claude Frantzen are also charged with involuntary manslaughter for having failed to detect and fix faults in the aircraft that investigators believe contributed to the crash. If found guilty, the individuals may face prison terms of up to three years plus fines of about $71,000 each. Continental faces a fine of as much...