Word: wheelchaired
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Kessler uses a wheelchair to get around, so while the elevator was being fixed, Kessler’s friends had to carry her up and down the stairs so that she could go to class and lunch...
...when elevators are working, entrapment remains a risk. Joe A. Ford ’06 took a Spanish class last year that required him to go to Lamont’s language lab regularly. The elevator that goes to the sixth floor was almost too small to fit his wheelchair; he could edge himself in, but once there, he couldn’t reach the buttons...
...People made the same argument about putting in wheelchair ramps,” Skier said. “We are asking for some simple, low-cost mechanisms that will help students...
...finally finish the Boston Marathon, a mere 2:10 behind the men’s winner. Barely able to walk after completing the course in 4:15—I nearly take up the offer of the kind volunteers and jump into a waiting wheelchair. But seeing that most of the people accepting that offer are about 30 years older than me, I decide to just tough...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro; of natural causes; in U.S. custody in Baghdad. In 1976 he founded the Palestine Liberation Front, whose members seized the boat, fatally shot American Leon Klinghoffer and pushed him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean. Abbas was captured by U.S. special forces in Baghdad last April, nearly two decades after being convicted in absentia by an Italian court...