Word: heeling
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...Shoe Fits, Bear It Shoes: can't live without them, but they can be a pain. Stilettos might have been the original bad shoe, but there have been plenty since. On Earth Day 1970, a Danish yoga instructor named Anne Kals started selling Earth Shoes: the heels were lower than the toes to simulate the effect of walking on sand. (It wasn't until the hallucinogens wore off that hippies remembered the arduousness of walking on a beach.) Next came Dr. Scholl's exercise sandals, wood-soled slip-ons that promised to tone calf muscles. Gravity boots became the yuppie...
...Civil liberties are China's Achilles' heel. By winning the Games, it will face more scrutiny on this front than ever. The chairman of Beijing's bid committee, Wang Wei, also raised expectations by promising that a Beijing Games would "improve all facets of life in China, including education, health and human rights." But the way China conducted its bid belied such talk. Just two weeks before the vote, the party celebrated its 80th birthday by ordering all cinemas to show propaganda films with titles like Wedding Ceremony at the Execution Ground. The fixation on killing fields extended beyond celluloid...
...other modern apes that amble along on four limbs, kadabba almost certainly walked upright much of the time. The inch-long toe bone makes that clear. Two-legged primates (modern humans included) propel themselves forward by leaving the front part of their foot on the ground and lifting the heel. This movement, referred to as toeing off, causes the bones in the middle of the foot to take on a distinctive shape--a shape that is readily apparent in the ancient toe bone. "If you compare a chimp's foot bones with its hand bones, they look the same because...
...bone Haile-Selassie found, because it's from a different toe. "What we can see [in the new discovery's foot] is that the base of the bone adjacent to the knuckle has a distinct angle, showing that the creature walked step after step after step with its heel off the ground, using the front of its foot as a platform...
...first play, a one-acter called The Room, debuts at Bristol University. About a mysterious visitor to a down-at-heel apartment, it sets the tone for the major Pinter plays to come...