Word: crips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keffer came to Cambridge as part of a strong freshman crip recruited in an attempt to turn around the Crimson, a 3-22 finisher...
...There is no question that there is a stereotype," says Lisa Chertkov '85, president of Advocates for a Better Learning Environment, a group that lobbys for disabled students at Harvard. Chertkov says students take it for granted that a disabled person at Harvard is some kind of "super-crip," who must be all-capable after overcoming incredible odds...
Like her sister astronauts, Ride has mostly been treated like one of the guys Says she: "Crip won't even open a door for me anymore." Ever since the mission earn selection was announced 14 months ago, Ride and her crewmates have spent most of their waking hours together. The fifth member of the group, Norman Thagard, 39, another mission specialist, was added only last December. As a physician, he will investigate a nagging difficulty of space travel: the initial queasiness, or "space adaptation syndrome," that seems to afflict about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days...