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Jerome Gibbons works about 60 hours a week, just as he did five years ago--but with one difference. In 1997 Gibbons held two demanding jobs--as a wheelchair attendant at Los Angeles International Airport and a security guard in an office tower. He still works 40 hours a week at the airport, but thanks to the city's five-year-old "living wage" ordinance, which raised the minimum wage for firms that contract with the city, his hourly pay has jumped from $5.75 to $9.54. He has been able to drop his second job and now studies...
...been weak and frail since Christmas, when she contracted a chest infection at Sandringham, the royal retreat in Norfolk. She was dependent on a wheelchair and still had a worrying cough in early February, when her second daughter, Margaret, died in London at age 71 after a series of strokes. Nevertheless, the Queen Mother insisted on attending the Princess's funeral at Windsor. The Archbishop of Canterbury recalled that at the St. George's Chapel service, she stood in tribute as Margaret's coffin passed...
...PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene in the Blue Smoke's Jazz Standard Club was pure Arkansas: dark and smoky, with such down-home dishes as BBQ pork and giant onion rings, beer and seemingly lax security. Jim Brady, Sarah Brady's husband, sat out in the audience in his wheelchair, eating ribs. Brady had been incapacitated in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Following that, Sarah became a leading gun-control advocate...
...Fund, dedicated to finding a cure, as well as the charity Music for All Seasons, which takes live music into hospitals, homes for the elderly and prisons. In his last public appearance, to receive a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) from Prince Charles, Moore was confined to a wheelchair. In photos he was gray, gaunt, stark, with none of the irrepressible whimsy that marked his on-screen lives...
...least one reason to celebrate when its athletes gather in Manchester in July and August for this year's Commonwealth Games. For the first time, disabled athletes will take part in the sporting carnival as full members of their national teams, with disabled events - which include an 800-m wheelchair race, table-tennis singles and 50-m and 100-m swimming races - incorporated into the Games' main program. In addition, any medals won by disabled athletes will count toward their country's overall medal tally. Last week, Queen Elizabeth began the countdown to the Games by handing a baton containing...