His new story helped: Fierstein has teased out the friendship between the straight factory owner and the factory-saving transvestite who suggests the boot switch, who bond over their harsh fathers.

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Surely Google is going to flip some sort of censorship switch and boot eHow.com off its index, right?

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Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of an 8-foot-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.

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Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of a 2.5-meter-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.

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