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...Depression, running from the same swirling dust storms that are bearing down on Harvey's city as he speaks. He wears the same style of Stetson his dad wore, and his eyes tear up when he talks about him. "He was the most honest man I ever knew. So upright he never managed to make money," he says...
...Burl Cain has killed more people than most of them. He has set five down by lethal injection, and he has held each of their hands as they died. One man had track marks so bad they had to shoot the poison into his neck, and he kept bolting upright, so Cain had to push his shoulder down with his right hand while letting the man hold Cain's left for comfort. The table has five straps on the gurney--two leg manacles, two wristbands and one chest belt--making a horizontal cross, the only thing in Angola that...
While bikes are back, they're not your father's Schwinn or Raleigh. Since his day, bikes moved from the road or racing models, with their skinny tires and hunched-over riders, to mountain or off-road bikes on which cyclists in a half-upright position rolled on fat, nubby tires, cushioned by front and rear suspension. Then came the hybrid, combining tall, medium-width tires and a broad seat with springs, allowing for an upright riding position. Now comes the ultimate body-coddling machine: the "comfort" model. It marries the seat, tires and upright ride of the hybrid with...
...other hand, I carried a scuffed, family grip that opened at the top like a big doctor's satchel, as well as--and I can't remember how--an upright Underwood typewriter...
...occupation, why bother with feet at all? In their zeal to reduce women to reproductive devices, the ancient Chinese eliminated the female foot, at least as a means of locomotion. More recently, in 1981, a male biologist implied in the esteemed journal Science that human females evolved to stand upright long after males did because what did females have to do anyway, except root around in the cave with the babies...