The phrase "commuting shoe" is enough to send many professional women over the footwear-edge, haunted by visions of modern day Working Girl troops in laced up New Balances or pedicure-exposing Havaianas.

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Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.

WSJ: Northeast drilling boom threatens forest wildlife

With one out in the fifth, Luis Valbuena laced a shot into the right-field corner for what should have been a stand-up double.

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