"If a shoe doesn't support the arch, the fascia will be stretched, and that can cause inflammation, " says Robbins.

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If JFK won't be budged, Mr. Kessler thinks Lincoln could fit in well between the arch of triumph and a fountain adorned by Neptune, Tritons, and a boy grasping a cornucopia.

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"People didn't know if it was a nuclear-bomb facility, " says William Butterly about the temporary arch-shaped, steel-and-fabric hoop barn he had to build in his Fairfield, Conn.

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