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...division of labor is evident as the troops head out on a foot patrol through Haifa Street. Raouf's men fan out in patrol formation while the colonel and his bodyguards move through the middle. Raouf, in dark wraparound sunglasses, a pistol strapped to his thigh and a snubby machine gun dangling from his waist, waves at men sipping tea at sidewalk cafés and barks orders to soldiers as they scan the alleyways and rooftops for snipers. Johnson hangs back, surveying the street and occasionally radioing the humvees behind him. When Raouf stops to talk to a crying woman...
Setting off for 112 Mercer Street, some five blocks away, where Einstein lived, Hulit took with him a foot measurer and a few pairs of shoes. Dukas admitted the shoe man to the foyer of the smallish two-story house. "Suddenly," says Hulit, "Einstein came down the stairs, smoking his pipe. He shook hands and then reached into his back pocket, pulled out a folded piece of paper and said, 'Zis is ze problem...
...good scientific investigator, Einstein, who walked the mile to and from his office at the Institute for Advanced Study every day, had attempted to figure out his discomfort. He had drawn two sketches of shoes (see diagram), showing the pattern of foot pressure. The one he had labeled "bad" showed his current problem: the pressure on his feet was concentrated on the outside of his foot and on his big toe. The drawing labeled "good" showed what he thought to be the ideal: pressure evenly distributed over the entire foot...
...holy one. "He took it to another level," was how one Vatican official put it. While I salute Jordan and Marguerite, who brought TIME's coverage in Rome to another level, I'm set to cover this papacy from the outset. I will make sure to keep one foot in the bookstore and the other in the piazza - and do my best to miss neither the story, nor the experience...
...stories, they are greeted with bass-heavy music in a dark attic, crowded with folding chairs and tables laminated with a hodgepodge of articles—some about the Comedy Studio’s history and others that have sentimental value for Jenkins. The stage is less than a foot away from the closest audience members, and probably less than 10 yards from the farthest. The Hong Kong restaurant serves the audience with food, beer, and its trademark Scorpion Bowl, an inebriating concoction of hard liquors...