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...Rob Marince had a bad accident when he was 17 years old. He was riding in a car that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest...
Thanks to Gary, a communications major from Penn State, Rob, 23, now lies in his bedroom in Hopewell Township, Pa., at the heart of one of the most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a desktop computer, a remote-control video recorder, a scattering of video games and pinball machines, a conference-type telephone system and a backyard antenna big enough to broadcast network-quality television signals. All of it was pieced together during the past five years by Gary and Ted Ruscitti...
...Satcom F3R," says Rob...
...Atlanta," says Rob. Moments later the TV at the foot of his bed lights up with a news broadcast from Ted Turner's superstation WTBS, beamed via high-earth orbit...
Streetsmart has tips on how to protect oneself from muggings and robberies: it re-states commonsense wisdom like not remaining in a half-empty subway car if someone starts threatening to rob you, or not walking in high-crime areas alone after dark. Such advice can never be repeated enough, but the style of the book should be carefully noted by both fans and critics of the Angels. Sliwa and Schwartz repeatedly pander to the worst fears and stereotypes held by white middle-class city and suburban dwellers...