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Ellison, who is paralyzed from the neck down, uses a wheelchair and respirator. She said she has trouble using Boston public transportation and often finds local businesses and public facilities unaccommodating...
...weeks ago, members of the senior class were instructed to wear bright, bold colors. Arrive, on time, for a familiar fall ritual, the Yearbook Photo. Some went shopping for a neck-line that could be immortalized, others stressed over the appropriateness of pearls and a few simply didn't care that much at all. Facing a two-hour wait to access the velvet-ensconced studio, I sympathized with the latter camp and staged a quick disappearing...
...body-double. The most famous print example is the old Pretty Woman poster. The tie pulled across the neck is where the head was attached to the body and Julia Roberts never looked so good...
...Same with mountain climbing," he says. Chouinard, who has climbed El Capitan and every other seemingly impossible mountain, was caught in an avalanche on Gongga Shan in China in 1980. He and three companions rode the avalanche down 1,500 ft.; one of the others broke his neck and died. "Nowadays, people are interested only in reaching the top so they can tell others they did it," says Chouinard. "So they climb Everest with a Sherpa tied to them by a 3-ft. rope, one behind and one in front. Their beds are made when they reach camp. Someone...
...watch him walk to the river and begin casting with so deft a motion it seems he is drawing currents in the air. His back is to me; I study the latticework creases in his neck. After a few casts, he hooks a female cutthroat that shimmers gold and silver as it resists and bends his rod into a bow, like the Zen archer's. When he pulls in the fish, it wriggles under the arc of the bow before he moves it toward his hand. The trout looks up at him in desperate wonder. He reaches for its mouth...