Word: walke
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...three years before the polio vaccine was available, I was a 33-month-old toddler. I took a nap with my 5-year-old cousin. When we woke up, she was fine, but I had a fever, was in terrific pain and could not walk. After rushing me to the hospital and seeing me go through two spinal taps, my parents heard the dreaded diagnosis: polio. I had paralysis in both legs, my back, right arm, diaphragm and lungs. I spent the next four months in the hospital until I was miraculously able to breathe on my own again. Ahead...
...contrast, in many of the neo-Georgian Houses—like Dunster, Leverett, Lowell, and Eliot—residents routinely suffer through painfully small rooms and walk-through suites, primarily because the common rooms built into the original blueprints are now being used as additional bedrooms...
...graduates walk across the stage this week to commemorate their time at Harvard, they turn the page of their own life stories. They imagine the endless opportunities to change the world and write the next great chapter of American history. Society is sure to meet these hopes with cynicism. Pundits are sure to embrace a politics of “No you can’t.” They will surely posit that such dreams are naïve and irrational...
...Every morning, Harris gets up at 4:50 a.m., goes to the Cabot House gym at 5:50 to weight-lift and use an arc trainer, takes his daughter’s two-year-old dog Tikvah for a walk at 6:50, and returns home to actually begin...
...concerns. I would need surgery, be home for six weeks, on crutches for three months, and—if all went well—I would be off a cane in five. Forget sculling on the Charles—my chief concern suddenly was being able to walk at Commencement...