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...time, but Dallek paints the fullest and most unnerving picture yet of a President in constant pain from degenerative bone disease and heavily medicated. It raises the obvious question of whether voters should have known more about the health of a man who Dallek says often could barely climb a flight of stairs and could not put on his own socks. Dallek describes X rays showing that some of J.F.K.'s vertebrae collapsed while he was still in his 30s. The historian also learned that J.F.K. had nine secret hospital stays during a 2 1/2-year period in the mid-1950s...
There is a door at the bottom of the tower and then you walk up the narrow, spiraling steps. Windows in the tower light the staircase only intermittently, so that as you climb you are plunged from light into darkness again and again, and although I was climbing up I kept matching my step to the rhythm of the lines from “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay that run, “Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave, Gently they...
...Numbers $29,000 is the predicted price for the Independence iBOT 3000 Mobility System?a new wheelchair that employs sensors and gyroscopes to help its users climb stairs...
...successful this year, the Crimson will need to climb the ranks in more critical statistical categories...
...clock continues to tick on Jones’ remaining days at Yale. The more Yale continues to climb the ranks, the more his stock continues to soar. In the meantime, Yale—with all five starters back, plus captain Chris Leanza—figures to contend again for the Ivy title ... Draughan was the most highly touted freshman coming into last season, but it was Gamboa who walked away with the award as the league’s top rookie. Still, Draughan is considered to have the bigger upside and this could be the year he really starts...