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...good for the sole as a comeback classic. When Dr. Scholl's Exercise Sandals debuted in 1948, the wooden slip-ons were promoted as a means to flex the foot, strengthen the arch and tone leg muscles. In the 1970s they peaked in popularity, not as an orthopedic shoe but as inexpensive hippie footwear. Today the sandals with the trademark gold buckle and unmistakable staccato ticking sound are back. "Sales are up 630% from last year," says Alan Johnson, a buyer for Shoes.com "It started in January as a very metropolitan craze. Now they've spread to every corner." Their...
...your boyfriend is about to), leather pants, lace-up jeans, plaid miniskirts, even sexy lingerie--much of it with sought-after teenage labels like Paris Blues, HotKiss and Dickies. The store's lush look (New Orleans romantic fantasy meets Gothic) is unique too. Red-vinyl-upholstered benches ring the shoe area, hand-blown chandeliers hang from the ceiling, and gargoyles grace the cash-wrap...
...World Trade Center's tragic demise orchestrated by the Egyptian-born Atta. As investigators try to figure out what sent Fasulo straying toward downtown Milan, all signs now point clearly away from terrorism. But as the sun set on a perfectly clear Thursday, it had seemed that the other shoe - though of a much smaller size - had dropped in the heart of a key European financial capital. There were the first eyewitness accounts of the small private plane coldly slicing into the upper floors, the television images of black smoke rising from the country's tallest building, the scattered papers...
...know what we were thinking." The reinforced cement building withstood the impact and was never at risk of collapsing. Also, several of the upper floors were being renovated, which likely prevented further casualties. That was welcome news. The bad news is that, up there somewhere, the other shoe is still waiting to drop...
...stories sank in, cocky airline pilots - many of whom have combat experience - seemed humbled by the challenge of dealing with terrorism. The class laughed when one presenter showed a cartoon of Richard Reid, the scraggly "shoe-bomber" who tried and failed to blow up an American Airlines flight from Europe last December. But the lecturer scolded them. "Reid was not a bumbling idiot. In fact, the sophistication of his operation should make you shiver...