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High heels weren't designed for walking, so many women wear sneakers on their way to work. Now companies are making dress shoes with sneaker technology. The result: walking pumps with extra cushioning in the soles and heels. Women are running to buy them at $65 to $100 a pair. U.S. Shoe, which touts its Easy Spirit pumps with spots of women playing basketball in them, says sales of the shoes more than doubled last year. Brown Shoe's Naturalizer division quadrupled sales of its NaturalSport line when it added TownWalker pumps to its collection. Says Leslie Smith, a product...
When police and emergency crews arrived on the scene, the victim was lying on the sidewalk in front of the Manhattan Clothing and Shoe store at 563 Mass...
...MBTA employee said the fire, which sent smoke billowing out of ventilation grates along Mass. Ave., was caused by an electrical problem with a "brake shoe...
Something about telephones is obscurely comic, related to some manic vaudeville. In your fist you clutch to the ear an object that looks ignominiously like the shining plastic cousin of a shoe. Designers have produced more streamlined models, but an essential ungainliness is inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through...
...station, our handcuffs were removed. We never got our watches and belts back; we were too scared to ask. We ran to the beach, swimming far out, trying to shed our skins and memories. As we dried off afterwards, Zac fished a sodden piece of paper from his shoe. On it was a Kingston phone number...