Leave your hiking boots outside the hut at night and a kea will happily rip out the insoles.

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In the city, Ms. Rees began working for Schering-Plough, where she sold Dr. Scholl's insoles, wart removers and bunion pads an upgrade from panty liners, she says.

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Dr Mahdavi is working on other lattice structures, including aerodynamic body parts for racing cars and special insoles for a firm that hopes to make the world's most comfortable stiletto-heeled shoes.

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She had always hiked the mountains as a respite from order forms and insoles at the Bee Bee shoe company in Manchester, where she worked for 20 years and became the manager's assistant.

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Compared to the early polar explorers of the 1900s, Fiennes's team will benefit from some innovative equipment, including boots with electrically-heated insoles, battery-powered heated clothing, radar to spot dangerous crevasse fields and a specially designed breathing apparatus to enable them to survive at temperatures that will regularly reach -70 degrees Celsius and perhaps even lower.

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