Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People without the use of their arms or legs can now rely on computerized "sip and puff" machines. With light puffs into a plastic straw, users can switch on the TV and change its channels, telephone a friend and play computer games. Electronic nerve stimulars are helping men with severe spinal-cord injuries to father children; penile implants are enabling men who cannot sustain an erection to make love. Wheelchairs that stand up make it possible for the disabled to greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals...
Last night was the Beanpot championship game, not the consolation round. Harvard was without the services of only one player, Co-Captain Sue Cullinane, who has been nursing a leg injury. But like the men, Harvard fell to the Huskies...
...Roast leg of lamb w/gravy...
...medley relay was the opening event of the meet and foreshadowed the rest of the day's events. Kovacs burst out of the blocks for a commanding lead on the first leg but Princeton's stars, Nelson Diebel and Ty Nelson, overtook the Crimson in the next two legs of the breaststroke and the butterfly. Harvard's Wagner tried to pull it out for the Crimson with the fastest anchor leg of the event, but the Harvard team fell short by nearly half a second...
...final race of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay, was inconsequential to the overall score but was the closest race of the day. Going into the final leg, the Crimson held a lead of over a second, but Cornelius overtook Harvard's Lynn Kelley in the last 25 yards. Cornelius's split of 50.77 was even faster than her time in the individual 100-yard freestyle that she won earlier in the meet...