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Showing a little leg along with the shuttle schedule seems to have gone out of style. ShuttleGirl, the curvaceous lady who loved “taking you home,” has been retired since the Sept. 24 debut of Shuttletime (www.shuttletime.harvard.edu), Harvard’s new version of the site...
...good as I did at 35." Still, it's impossible to ignore the reality that a group of grandparents are dodging bull horns and bronco hooves--especially since the animals make no allowances for age. Injuries are guaranteed. In Redmond, a particularly ornery bull shatters a rider's leg in a serious accident that rodeo veterans refer to as a wreck. Most wrecks are not that severe, but they are nearly always serious. "You're gonna hurt sometimes," says Phil Rawlins, 71, a team roper who lost a finger during competition several years ago (it was surgically reattached). "But wrecks...
...would think that someone like Naldur would be ready to sign up for his game cards, given the toll bronco busting is taking on his body. Last year the school psychologist from Layton, Utah, broke a rib and a leg, ruptured his spleen, separated his shoulder and suffered a concussion. Each time he taped himself up and got back on the horse a few days later. "Every autumn I have a retirement party," Naldur says. "Then in spring the snow melts, the flowers bloom, and I realize nothing's really changed except I'm one year older." His wife Mazie...
Gray acquires goods at liquidation sales and by bartering with a network of Latin contacts, who help smooth his way through Customs and provide other favors. He recently secured corrective surgery for a Salvadoran boy with a deformed leg in exchange for providing a surgeon with a supply of crutches and leg braces. A range of Rotary Clubs and other service groups assist the Samaritan with logistics and funding so that he can mount missions as far afield as Kosovo, Kenya and Argentina. Through Airline Ambassadors, an aid group of airline employees, Gray grabs air-cargo space for his bulky...
Because my brother can and does feel. During my senior year of high school, my mother, trying to place John on the toilet, dropped him, breaking his leg and shattering her hope that she could take care of him forever. After years of lifting, changing, and feeding, John was placed in a nursing home last March. For the first month he tearfully screamed at the nurses, “I want go home.” He could only sleep if my mother was with him. He would point to the telephone and say my name...