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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10710)	4/7/2001 9:21:06 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

And if you go to the slave in the Sudan and say "what do you want" and he says "I want to be free, but they have guns and I have none," then what do you do?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10710)	4/7/2001 9:24:24 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

So much for "sensible" shoes. Stiletto heels are healthier. Stiletto heels have their good points By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent SPINDLY stilettos do less damage to women's knees than sensible wide-heeled court shoes, scientists reveal today. A study found that one woman in five teetered around in uncomfortable shoes. In The Lancet today Dr Casey Kerrigan, of the Harvard Medical School in America, reports that wide-heeled shoes with plenty of toe space put women more at risk from osteoarthritis. Prof Kerrigan said: "Although high-heeled shoes are traditionally thought of as stilettos with a narrow-base sole and heel, women's dress shoes with wide-base soles and moderately high high heels are routinely worn by women of all ages, in work and other settings." His team studied 20 women, average age 34, as they walked barefoot, in wide-heeled shoes and then in stilettos along a 30 ft gangway. Using motion analysis, they measured the pressures placed on knee joints by the different types of shoes. Both types of shoes increased the inwards twisting pressure on knee joints, but the wide-heeled shoes increased pressure by 26 per cent compared with standing still, whereas stilettos exerted a 22 per cent increase. Prof Kerrigan also found that walking in the wide-heeled shoes caused almost a third more pressure on the knee than walking barefoot. Both types of shoe had heels almost three inches high, but the base of the stilettos was less than half an inch wide, whereas the court shoes were more than one and three-quarter inches wide at the base of their heels. telegraph.co.uk