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...teasing him about his weight. His grades were dropping. His self-esteem was so low he would refuse to take off his shirt in blistering heat for fear of "repelling" family members. And since the mocking increased when he exerted himself--biking in the neighborhood, say, or trying to climb a rope in PE--he was spending most of his free time indoors...
BUILDING A BETTER BACKPACK INVENTORS: ED KOIS, DAVID GILMOUR, SCOTT CUMMINGS A few years ago, David Gilmour, 60, a patient with back problems, came to the office of physiatrist Ed Kois and told him he wanted to climb a mountain. Kois told Gilmour he was crazy, but Kois, Gilmour and Cummings started working on the Back Balancer, a 10-in.-wide oval-shaped pad that, when retrofitted to a normal backpack, acts as a spine-supporting brace. The pad pulls on the abdomen, creating a hydraulic lift to save wear on back muscles. Kois' patient raved about the device...
...result will seem, to exactly half of the American people, to have been an act of theft. No, the greater problem is that whichever of these two men ends in the White House, we are going to get a mediocre president. He will have a high hill to climb to persuade us otherwise...
According to Brinkley, would-be presidents climb the political ladder through one of two models. The first: an elite background. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson are all examples of this, as are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, John F. Kennedy '40 and Bush...
Does this mean that compromise is impossible, that everyone must take sides and never climb down? Of course not. If the line between opinion and dogma disappears, then there is no hope. And without hope, there is no point in having opinions...