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...dorm laundry rooms and form an underground hot yoga ring. 3) Practice for primal scream regularly; running in between popular class times will help with both fitness and crowd navigation skills. 4) Make use of all the dance space every House seems to have: jazzercise, jazzercise, jazzercise. 5) Start hooking up with someone in the Quad to walk five extra miles each day. 6) Start hooking up with someone in the Mountaineering Club so you get to use their sweet indoor climbing wall. 7) Find leg warmers on eBay and take up inline skating. 8) Use your House...
Throughout the course of any given night, these otherwise upstanding members of society—who likely preside over three organizations and manage to maintain a 4.0 GPA—might, in a chemically induced haze, lose their I.D., hook up with six varsity athletes, and polish off the night with a memorable (if not remembered) high-speed police chase. The following morning, these students manage to arrive to class on time, looking preppy and sporting a few unidentifiable injuries, only to take thorough notes and engage in meaningful conversation with their professor after class. All in a day?...
...invited to meet with my rehab team of eight people. Lieut. Colonel Paul Pasquina, medical director of the Army's amputee-care program, cited a few options to the myoelectric arm, including a body-powered prosthesis. They were lighter, unencumbered at the elbow, and ended in a hook. Pasquina said I might adopt a hook as a trademark that people would come to respect for its straightforward honesty...
...could miss my disability now. I put on a hook for Thanksgiving dinner and never took it off. It twisted into the end of my myoelectric prosthesis and turned 360? like an electronic hand. Only it worked better. Two silver talons opened like forceps, locked on to items and could pick a dime off the floor. Occasionally I screwed on a plastic, clawlike device known by the German word for grabber--Greifer--to move heavy objects, and I contemplated the long list of attachments--garden tools, spatulas, hammers and pool-shooting bridges--that were available by special order. I usually...
Half a year after I dismissed the suggestion from a Walter Reed doctor, the hook had become my trademark. It was brash, straightforward and pragmatic, virtues I cherished. I had left a lot of me behind in the Baghdad grenade attack. By its first anniversary, I was starting to reclaim...