Word: drives
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When you break your neck and sever your spine, leaving your legs and hands paralyzed, you don't expect to drive a car. Of course, driving isn't your first concern. There are more elementary needs, like getting across a room or lifting a fork or signing your name...
...know. After a year of post-accident muscle retraining, exercise and long practice, I got the hang of the easy stuff. But one thing I was sure of: I was 22 and I'd never drive again...
...course, it's possible that eLance could drive wages down by cutting out intermediaries like temp and staffing agencies. But startups pressed for time and cash might welcome a virtual hiring hall of humans. eLance farmed out work on its site to a programmer in Bombay who named the right price online. Says Sheth, "In the real world, you can't hire 500 people over the weekend...
...worst fate in the world, but I had always loved to drive, and my few attempts to do so in rehab--driving a Buick with my fearless instructor, Giri Sipajlo, down New York City's F.D.R. Drive--proved unsatisfactory. I kept bumping other cars. Not very hard and not very seriously, but often enough. I gave...
...drive from the wheelchair...