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...doctor] said that everything’s healing well,” Frey said, “and that I can start doing things that I wasn’t able to do such as stair stepping and mild running...
...gyms have comparable numbers of cardio equipment, with Wellbridge featuring five more treadmills for a total of 15, and two more stair climbers than the MAC’s six. But the MAC attracts far more people than Wellbridge; the MAC sees roughly 7,000 to 10,000 visits a week—as many as 1,500 per day—and serves a much larger population than Wellbridge does...
Floor by floor, the Forum is as eventful as a totem pole. To satisfy zoning regulations that require upper stories to be set back to admit sunlight to the street, most architects provide a stair-step silhouette. Abraham produced a diagonal slope with angular overhangs, like teeth on a harpoon. His upper stories simultaneously thrust upward and avalanche down. Below that, the director's office is housed in a glass box that juts from the zinc facade...
...tasks of parenthood, the first instinct is to keep your children safe. But there are no safety locks, no stair guards for this moment, and parents of six-year-olds and 26-year-olds find themselves confounded by their inability to do their most basic job. "I feel it has changed my relationship with my children," says George Egan, a Pittsburgh, Pa., investment banker, of the fallout from the attacks. He and his wife Annie have two sets of twins, ages 3 and 6. "When I go upstairs at night to check on them I now feel somehow less confident...
...personal mobility vehicles." It's known that Kamen and his colleagues have been working for years on a clean, sealed-combustion Stirling engine that could run on any fuel, including hydrogen. The prevailing theory is that Ginger would combine Stirling technology with a stabilizing system pioneered in Kamen's stair-climbing wheelchair. (The wheelchair's code name, by the way, was Fred. Get it? Fred and Ginger.) The newest clues are the names of two websites registered by Kamen-controlled companies: mystirlingscooter.com and flywheels.com