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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...
...Walk This Way If the 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...