Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Booker, who has been using a wheelchair all his life, could not use the elevator designed to make the first-year dining hall accessible to students with mobility impairment. Due to an administrative oversight, his ID card hadn't been programmed into system...
...center isn't open to them yet; preteens have it until 6 p.m. They sit outside, on the edge of the basketball courts. After all their talk, only one of the boys joins the game in progress. Alex sits apart from the rest, on the yellow railing of the wheelchair ramp. One of the guys moves over and leans his elbows by Alex...
...money will go towards improving the dining area, making the shelter wheelchair accessible, and other essential structural renovations...
Indeed, Hawking drew a crowd because of his fame. Bound to a wheelchair for his adult life, he has overcome his handicap to become the world's foremost expert on theoretical physics. Each of his lectures took 30 hours to prepare, and he still managed to write another paper during his one-week stay at Harvard...
Hawking was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative motor neuron disease, at the age of 21 and has spent the last 14 years confined to a wheelchair. He currently has motion only in two fingers of his left hand...