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- <text id=93TT1478>
- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: Light-Footed
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- BUSINESS
- Light-Footed
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- <body>
- <p> Surrounded by cops on a Virginia highway, accused drug dealer
- Alfred E. Acree Jr. did what any self-respecting suspect would
- do: he ran like hell. Diving into a dark wood at night, Acree
- was no doubt amazed by the swiftness of his apprehension by
- county sheriff's deputies--not realizing that he had signaled
- his presence brilliantly with his brand-new L.A. Gear Light Gear
- athletic shoes, battery powered so as to illuminate the wearer's
- every move. Officers say $800 worth of cocaine was found in
- Acree's pockets. L.A. Gear, naturally, prefers the story of a
- seven-year-old in Ripley, Tennessee, who disappeared with her
- three-legged dog Coco, only to be located by police who spotted
- the constant glow of her sneakers.
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- </body>
- </article>
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