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Once this composite was created, software trickery gave it 3-D pop. One program distorted higher-altitude portions of the picture to create perspective, while another gave the image its vertiginous tilt...
...thoughts. You captured the paradox in his driving perfectionism and his unsure self-criticism. The opening paragraph was especially masterly in its description of Chris in his chair, inert and immobile but all forward motion in his eyes and his thinking. Similarly, the last image of him, on the tilt table, standing tall, was so apt and telling of his strong desire to walk again. BARBARA L. JOHNSON Princeton, New Jersey...
Reeve undertakes one other exercise program three or four times a week, in which he is brought as close to a standing position as possible. He is carried from his chair to a tilt table by two women nurses and a male trainer. He is placed on a surface that can be cranked up as high as he will go for his body to bear its own dead weight...
What evidently happened was that at the third jump, Buck simply stopped. Up to that point, according to the judges and observers of Reeve's progress on the course, everything was going fine. It was an easy, fairly low jump. Reeve was heading toward it at full tilt, about 500 yds. per min. But then "Buck just put on the brakes," says Reeve. "Later the fence judge told me that there was nothing whatever to indicate that the horse was worried about the jump. Someone suggested that a rabbit ran out and spooked Buck. I thought it could have been...
...mail carrier, Kasich delivers his balance-the-budget message with both regularity and passion. "The enemy of the American people is the status quo," says the chairman of the House Budget Committee. "It takes us on the road to bankruptcy." Kasich (rhymes with basic) isn't afraid to tilt at the White House or at G.O.P. leadership in order to cut spending. Kasich, 44, could win John Glenn's Senate seat in '98, if he can live down the infamy of once getting thrown off the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. He is less a Deadhead, though, than...