Today, some 80 percent of residents are named Zhang, and older women with bound feet sell trinkets in the alleys.

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They did it on skis ridiculously long--14 to 16 feet--made of Douglas fir and bound to their feet with leather straps.

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They include a Briton who was found at low tide hanging off the end of a pier, his feet bound to a rock.

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On December 23, a 29 year old man was found in one of the neighborhoods up the hill from the beach in Acapulco with his hands and feet bound, killed by two gunshots.

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Nearly everything about Shuyu appalls Lin, particularly her feet, which were bound in the old-fashioned way during her childhood.

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The Pulkovo Airlines Ilyushin Il-86 - bound for St Petersburg - came down in a forest about 700 metres (2, 300 feet) from the airport.

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