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...Winkler was one of 29 participants to attend the fifth Paralympic Military Sports Camp, held at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from May 3-8. The camp, launched by disabled Gulf War veteran John Register in 2005, is designed to help veterans like Winkler develop and hone new athletic skills through a series of intensive clinics. "We have 24 sports on the menu that can be offered," Register says. "On the battlefield, you strive for excellence, and there are a few here that continue to do that." U.S. Paralympics national team coaches and athletes train the veterans...
...Because it typically takes about three years to adequately rehab and train for the Paralympics, Winkler and Greene could be two of only a handful of other veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to make the 2008 team. But by 2012, Register says he's confident that veterans from those wars will make up at least 15% of the U.S. team...
...problems, it boils down to simple dollars and cents. Schools just don't want to pay the money. The average AED now costs about $1,500 and some are even available for less than a grand. But buying the equipment isn't the only hurdle, they also need to train someone to use it. "Money is a big problem," says Vanderbilt's Meyer, whose college has since bought ten additional defibrillators...
...competent management” on the HESA board. “We can no longer make do with whoever walks in the door,” De La Rosa wrote on his Web site. “We will look at resumes, examine records of accomplishment, and train well to ensure cohesion.” But Sams called De La Rosa’s approach to student government “autocratic.” “Mine is an open-door policy to include the many different initiatives, ideas, and opinions of students,” Sams contended...
Just as harmful as the generalization that all homeless people are dishonest or deserving of their situations is the generalization that all homeless people are “sleeping outside of the COOP, asking for money outside of CVS, or hanging out close the train stop,” as Seegars characterizes them in his column. While it is important to recognize and empathize with the people we walk past, who seem to be there every day alone with cups outstretched on the street, students should also recognize that there is a large population of homeless people...