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...handicapped parking space," he confesses. "The hardest part is you feel you're falling apart," says Rena Shnaider, a retired rehabilitative counselor from Oakland, California, who has spent her life in a wheelchair but who drove a car, went to college and had enough control over her body to lift herself up when needed. "I know I can't do half the things I used to, and it makes me sad to have to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reliving Polio | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...about attending the funeral of I.R.A. member Thomas Begley, who died last October when the bomb he was planting in a fishmonger's shop in a Protestant neighborhood went off prematurely, killing nine men, women and children besides himself. As is the custom at Irish funerals, Adams "took a lift," shouldering the coffin for a short time on the way to the cemetery. ; That picture stirred outrage in Britain, where it was regarded as proof that Adams was an I.R.A. boss. "It would have been seen as a cynical political maneuver not to attend," he says. "I accept the criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Irish Puzzle | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

First-years have just turned in their housing preferences, in the process having chosen blockmates and rejected or accepted some potentially disastrous roommates. So we thought it would be a good time to reminisce about the types of people we and our friends lift behind...

Author: By Jc & Nhl, | Title: First Year | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...glance at the lift off previous Lowell House Opera productions shows that the company's repertoire is as varies as its history is long...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: Magnum Opera Stops the Show | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...drop two of my classes," he says. "Iended up taking just three math classes." And fora guy who says he likes to lift weights and run alot, "feeling low-energy and getting out of breathwas difficult," Hruschka says. To compensate,Hruschka says he picked up some other interests...

Author: By Susan S. Shin, | Title: Student Fights Cancer, and Wins | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

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