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...normally the ads for lost pets or cheap painters would be. Outside the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the families afloat on hope and dread waited on line for the chance to fill out the seven-page form asking about their loved ones' tattoos and earlobes and shoe size and whether their fingers were tobacco stained. Maybe they are in a hospital, confused but safe. "I'm looking for my mother," says Brian Daniels. "Her name is on the website that she's fine, but I don't know where she is." He doesn't know that many...
Supporters of the antitrust lawsuit are worried that last week's announcement by Justice may be only the first shoe to drop. The next, they fear, could be a fuller capitulation, with the government settling the suit on terms that will let Microsoft continue to abuse its monopoly position. But Justice insists it's just trying to balance morality and mortality. "We hope," a top official said last week, "to bring the Microsoft case to a resolution in all of our lifetimes...
...technology has made the plain old running shoe look boring...
...getting nearly as outlandish. Nike's Shox line, below left, introduced late last year at $150 a pair, features springs in the heels, providing runners and hoopsters with what the company calls "responsive cushioning." This summer the company also released Air Hyperflights, above right, an extra-light basketball shoe combining a new synthetic material with snazzy, Ferrari-like styling. Sneakers like Skidz and Street Flyers are incorporating roller-skating wheels. And one new brand, Heelys, top, features a single removable "stealth skate" in each heel that lets users walk or, with wheels engaged, zoom up to 32 m.p.h. They...
...come up to me and introduce themselves. At ice cream bashes and cheesy mixers, in Annenberg and Greenough Hall—for some unimaginable reason, everyone wanted to know what my name was, where I was from, what dorm I was in, what I was thinking about studying, my shoe size, if I knew the one person they had ever met from East Nowheres, N.J., and so on. Even more bizarrely, I found myself extending my hand to other people and asking them these same asinine questions...