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...media circus began. A look through any media archive will reveal scores of articles between January 9th and mid-February just itching to know what Ginger is. And then Kamen, previously best known as the man who invented the $20,000 stair-climbing wheelchair, was no longer the press’s darling. But given the many stair-climbing wheel chairs we encounter so often on a daily basis, how could he fall out of the spotlight? What has become of Ginger...
...windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building. It took him 2 1/2 hours to descend by stair, his mouth covered with one of his damp sponges, his doffed shirt covering the mouth of a pregnant woman he escorted down. He was back at work the next day. "He said working that high up took some getting used to at first, but he found it peaceful, his escape...
...renovation included the replacement of all of the equipment in the weight and nautilus rooms, most of which was more than 20 years old. The “glut of stair masters,” as Wentzell puts it, were replaced by elliptical trainers, which people were “clamoring...
...godsend. Over the next several months, Connie was in fact the next best thing to a guardian angel for the Smiths. She put Ray in touch with a reputable home-health-care agency. When his mother became too weak to climb the steps in her home, she got a stair chair installed. "I still had to make a lot of decisions," Ray recalls. "But Connie was my resource on the ground...
Virtually all of this enchanting novel takes place in or around a Bombay apartment house where Vishnu, the tenants' drunken factotum, lies in his appointed sleeping place on a stair landing either dying or perhaps already dead. The two Hindu families on the first floor, the Asranis and the Pathaks, squabble over who will pay for the ambulance to cart poor, unsightly Vishnu away...