Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credits some of her improvement in track to the added leg strength and better conditioning resulting from the volleyball season...
...produce the hormone. Over time, however, they develop the same terrible complications as their Type I counterparts. University of Michigan's Dr. Stefan Fajans vividly remembers the autoworker he diagnosed with Type II diabetes at age 41. Twenty years later the man was blind and had had one leg amputated. He died a short time later of a heart attack. "This form of diabetes," warns Dr. Fajans, "is not a benign disease...
...lifelong Republican, in 1988 headed up an organization called Third Congressional District Republicans for Kerrey. Why? Says Mercer: "I never met a person like Bob Kerrey." Members of the Navy Sea/Air/Land (SEAL) team who followed Kerrey into battle in Vietnam voice similar sentiments. The fact that he lost a leg and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" is part of Kerrey's political appeal. It also shields him from some of the voter wrath that would rain down on other politicians if they dared to be equally outspoken...
...Vietnam was escalating and Kerrey enlisted. "I was pretty gung-ho," he says now. In March 1969 he led his SEAL team on a night raid against an enemy unit holed up in a cave. Struck by a grenade, he suffered a wound that required amputation of his right leg just below the knee. Ironically, he was the only U.S. casualty during the raid. Kerrey has difficulty plumbing his own feelings about having been crippled at age 26. In 1986 he appeared before a 900-student class at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a guest lecturer...
...Washington, Kerrey is usually in his office by 6 a.m. He jogs six miles (on his good leg and his prosthesis) almost daily, has run marathons, reads voluminously. "He always does his homework," says Leahy. On weekends, he usually returns to Nebraska, where he divides his time between constituents and his children, Ben, 15, and Lindsey, 13, who live in Omaha with their mother. On longer recesses, he is likely to travel abroad (early this year to Vietnam and Cambodia, in part for sentimental reasons, chiefly to shore up his foreign policy credentials). He is critical of the Bush Administration...