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Then, about ten years ago, she noticed that the pain and weakness she had endured as a polio victim were returning. Says she: "My right arm was hanging by my side. I began to get frightened." Seeking help, Ragans visited the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Georgia, named for perhaps the most famous polio victim, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. There doctors finally diagnosed her problem: post-poliomyelitis muscular atrophy, an affliction that strikes many former polio patients with symptoms that in some ways mimic the original disease. Across the U.S., PPMA is affecting more and more...
Almost a year before the race even starts, handicappers place good money on State Sens. Michael LoPresti Jr. '70 (D-Cambridge), George Bachrach (D-Watertown), Thomas J. Vallely (D-Boston), William F. Galvin (D-Boston), and big-time Cambridge lawyer and politico James Roosevelt of FDR fame...
...Theodore Roosevelt's gold Nobel Peace Prize from 1906 gleamed under a spotlight just a few steps beyond the door to the Oval Office. There are similarities between the two men. Early in his public life, Teddy was as bellicose as they come, but he ended up a peacemaker...
...year, and there are definite signs of improvement. Last year 88.5% of the trains arrived within five minutes of the schedule--up 6% since 1979. It may be better than it was in the '70s, but it is not yet as good as it was in 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House lay in Oyster Bay at the end of the North Shore line, and the service was bully...
...that Americans would pay, and they did. Abraham Lincoln at first hoped the Civil War might take a few million dollars and a few weeks to win. But after four years he had the world's biggest army and a conflict that cost a million dollars a day. Franklin Roosevelt plunged the nation billions of dollars into debt to ease the Depression and fight World War II. Concern about paying the bills was one of his lesser burdens. It took John Kennedy only a few minutes to decide he could find $40 billion to finance a trip to the moon...