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...Holding on to a ceiling strap, Vieux tilts forward as the airport bus careens across the tarmac...
...Sept. 18. To be more specific, he was one in a rush to get to his 1 p. m. physics section. Wearing a pair of flip-flops, Evan grabbed his blue North Face backpack with his left hand as he was going out the door. One of the waist strap buckles got stuck on his left big toe, and when he swung the backpack up to his shoulder, it “completely ripped off the left side of my toenail and, like, it hurt...
...revived, he dragged himself to UHS, “who were wonderful.” A surgeon removed the toenail and wrapped the toe up in gauze. For a while Evan had to wear handmade stylish footgear on his left foot—he attached a duct tape strap to his flip-flops because the layers of gauze made his foot too big to fit in anything else. Now he can wear normal shoes and play soccer using his left foot. The toenail is a little stub about a quarter of an inch wide, and “should...
Tripping the light fantastic at the Pudding? Match that cocktail dress with a black satin Tanenhaus bag with a pink sequin strap and a pair of killer plastic legs. Off to yoga class at Wellbridge? Sling along the “Shiva” bag, a divine octagonal sensation with ten lithe dolly arms a-waving...
Like many kids now heading back to school, I used one of those fashionable single-strap, over-the-shoulder bags to carry my books around when I was studying in New York City. But at Dartmouth Medical School, my city bag turned out to be totally inadequate for lugging heavy medical texts. I'd lose valuable minutes at the start of a lecture rubbing an aching arm and shoulder before I could start writing down what the prof said. Taking a cue from classmates, I finally got a large, wide-strapped bag with a third strap that wrapped around...