Word: wheelchairs
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...final step in modernizing the Fogg is making more of the building handicapped-accessible. Many of the museum’s largest and most attractive lecture rooms and exhibition halls are currently inaccessible by wheelchair. Because the Fogg was built long before the American Disabilities Act of 1990, rooms like the Norton Lecture Hall, which seats four hundred, are not handicapped-accessible and frequently underused. The building remains exempt from ADA standards, since plans currently exist to renovate...
...Still the Parkinson's is progressing, not only adding a risk to any related breathing problems, but steadily stripping the Pope of his ability to preach to his followers. What were once 17-hour papal work days are now a fraction of that with the Pope confined to a wheelchair and in need of ever more rest. Talk of retirement that surfaced three years ago has effectively been stifled, leaving Vatican observers with a nagging question: Who is really running the show at the Holy See? Rome's influential Cardinals no doubt are having their say. Conservative German stalwart Joseph...
...because they happened to be on an upper floor. Families were torn apart, lovers separated forever, by the merciless waves that made no distinction between rich and poor, famous and unknown. A British woman in Phuket was swept away while buying suntan lotion. An Austrian woman who used a wheelchair was carried off by the surf. British film director Richard Attenborough lost his 14-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, in Phuket. Attenborough's daughter, Jane Holland, 49, and her mother-in-law are missing. So is British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend...
...Crimson Staff made the claim that it found, “no plausible terrorist ties.” However, upon taking Baghdad, our troops found Iraq to be harboring Abu Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 and killed a wheelchair-bound American named Leon Klinghoffer. He was killed presumably for being Jewish and his shipmates were forced at gunpoint to throw him from the ship. Currently, the leading terrorist insurgent in Iraq is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an international terrorist of Jordanian birth with ties to al Qaeda, who was in Iraq...
...about that possibility that they can exaggerate the technology's potential. After Reeve died last week, Edwards sounded like a faith healer when he claimed, "If we do ... the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." Scientists are actually years from the first human clinical trials using embryonic stem cells...