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There's nothing as 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...
...first things the men did upon arrival was to dig up a Chinese grave, grind up the bones and scarf them down mixed with a little water. They apparently believed this would cure venereal diseases and build character. They then nailed the skull and two crossbones to a wooden board marking the camp's entrance. Beneath the bones, they wrote the words, "Our creed...
...nearly 7 percentage points annually with uncanny consistency since 1802. But his early numbers are rife with what statisticians call survivor bias: all the stocks in Siegel's pre-1871 index were winners, typically staying in business for at least 17 years. No flops such as canals or wooden turnpikes--just a couple of dozen profitable banks, insurers and railroads. Imagine calculating recent stock returns without Enron, Pets.com and Global Crossing. Would that give an accurate picture? Siegel says in his defense that survivor bias may overstate his 19th century numbers by "1 or 2 points." But Dimson, speaking...
...torture?it depends on the interests of the people." The village authorities make a report, which is passed up to the district party leadership to rule on the punishment and who should administer it, he says. "We use the kukri, the bullet, or beat them to death with a wooden stick. It's the party leaders who decide...
...into the house and tied all the adults' hands. They demanded to know where the guns were and, when we didn't tell them, they began to kick us and beat us with iron rods and sticks. While some of them began looting the house, two men put a wooden box under my brother's legs. As two men held him down, two others beat his legs, up and down with rods and sticks until they broke them over the edge. Then they cut him all over with kukris. All the time they shouted...