Word: heeling
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After studying the surrounding terrain, I went to one corner of the field and stuck my heel in the ground. This would be the upper left corner of the first grave. I found an empty K-ration carton and split it into wooden stakes. I paced off the graves in rows of 20 and marked them with the stakes. I had no transit, tape measure, shovels, picks or any other equipment needed to establish a properly laid-out cemetery...
Finally, footwear gets smart. The new Adidas 1 is the first running shoe to adjust its cushioning levels automatically during a jog. With every step, a magnetic sensor in the heel measures the force exerted by a runner and transmits this data to a microprocessor under the arch. The chip drives a tiny cable system that adjusts the heel, which gets harder to cushion the blow when your tired feet are pounding the pavement and then softer to relax them while walking across the lawn. The shoe might also relax your wallet: the Adidas 1 will retail at $250 when...
Another Achilles’ heel of NELC as it is currently structured lies in its Arabic language program. Currently, the Arabic program gives two options: Classical Arabic or Modern Standard Arabic. There are no classes taught in Arabic that are not philology or language classes. For those hoping one day to use their Arabic in the Middle East, that is not enough. Learning different dialects is just as important as learning the Standard Arabic form, but only one Arabic dialect is taught. If a student wishes to study abroad in Morocco, for instance, the Arabic he or she learned...
...interim constitution and escalating pressure for direct elections to be held quickly is precisely that they fear that the U.S. and its Iraqi allies intend to dilute the power they believe should accrue to their two-thirds majority of the population. They've been kept under the boot-heel of successive Sunni regimes for the past 80 years, and the whole point of their increasingly confrontational strategy is to press for democratic majority rule and not only prevent any expansion of minority influence in the future political order, but actually roll back some of that which has been included...
...That’s really the Achilles heel of the team” he said, “and we have to decide whether we’re going to be defined as Achilles eventually was—as a great warrior—or as his heel. And the choice...