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...broken up in the primaries the previous spring. Then, as he reports, "one afternoon in April 1989, I walked out of a baseball stadium and saw my son, Albert, then six years old, get hit by a car, fly thirty feet through the air and scrape along the pavement another twenty feet until he came to rest in a gutter." The child, at first near death, eventually recovered. It was in his son's hospital room in Baltimore that Gore began writing Earth in the Balance...
...leather shoe has four main parts: the upper,the lining inside the upper, the insole directlyunderneath the foot and the outsole which scrapesthe pavement. Until the middle of the 19thcentury, all shoes were made by hand. Massproduction had to wait for the rival of a machinethat could sew the upper to the sole. Gordon McKayarrived in 1860 with the McKay sole-sewingmachine, an improved version of the one LymanBlake patented...
...disturbed when I first saw the row of hot pink "Asian Model Search" posters of a tall, slim, decidedly caucasian-looking female taped to the pavement leading to the Science Center. Taped there, I suppose, to recruit all those reclusive Asian pre-meds...
...seen wearing a baseball cap, one hand resting on his hip, the other on a gate in the school. His eyes seem closed, but they're not. He's just looking down to the cement ground, as if the answers are to be found in the cracks on the pavement...
...government. But on Jan. 25, seven plainclothes policemen bearing assault rifles burst into Theodore's office as he was meeting with political party leaders. According to Theodore, he and his guests were marched single file out to the driveway, then ordered to lie face down on the pavement and surrender their weapons. "One of the policemen began to kick us as we lay there," he says. "I received a kick in the face, just under the eye." Theodore's bodyguard and friend, Yves Jean-Pierre, was killed by gunfire. "I didn't see Yves shot," he says, "but others...