Their heights were measured down to the 0.1 cm unit with the subjects wearing a light gown for health examination, with their heels attached to the ground, and their back straightened.
The order of service, as it were, is that the pigs are gassed in a rotating chamber that holds 10 animals, then they slide down a chute, hooked up by the heel and attached to an overhead pulley system that will ultimately deliver them into refrigerated trucks for transport.
In cheaper pumps, the heel is attached separately, or "spanked on" in shoe-speak.
These include a red paper cutout of figures and birds by Yu Shi Xu of China; a collage image of a sleek high-heel shoe attached to a ball and chain by Worapanit Jiya-Amondej of Thailand; a swatch of decorative weaving from Laos, artist unknown; and an image of a pattern-intensive painting of an elaborately gowned woman by Yaznur Ovganova of Turkmenistan.
Stick-on heel grips attach to inside back of your shoe and sticks to the heel of your foot, keeping it in place and preventing it from sliding forward.
High heeled wedges are the easiest high shoes to walk in, as the heel is fully attached to the sole of the shoe, giving you increased balance and comfort.
The nucleotide chain would then be a string of socks attached heel to toe, with the necks pointing inward toward the centre of the DNA molecule.
The transparent heel had been attached by means of a patented procedure that doesn't require nails, and there were small breathing holes along the bottom, to prevent the shoes from steaming up like ski goggles.
Jose Canseco limped across the clubhouse with an ice pack strapped across his left heel, more ice attached to his lower back, and probably would have lost a race to any of the young sons of Yankee players who were prancing around.
Annalisa Piazza, Newedge Strategy, notes the ECB is not speaking with a unanimous voice, with the Germans clearly digging in their heels over attaching conditions to any kind of bailout.
