Word: wheelchairs
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...BOTTOM LINE: He is bound to a wheelchair, but his mind explores the universe...
...almost totally paralyzed, speechless and wheelchair-bound, able to move only his facial muscles and two fingers on his left hand. He cannot dress or feed himself, and he needs round-the-clock nursing care. He can communicate only through a voice synthesizer, which he operates by laboriously tapping out words on the computer attached to his motorized chair. Yet at age 50, despite these crushing adversities, Stephen Hawking has become, in the words of science writers Michael White and John Gribbin, "perhaps the greatest physicist of our time." His 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, has sold...
...from the sidelines for three years, and I became familiar with the customary pattern of the day. First, there is the waiting, with the sandwiches, the tee-shirt hawkers, and the Red Sox game on the radio. Then you hear the television helicopter and the police sirens, and the wheelchair racers hurtle by on their fierce chariots of pride...
...first two hours I walked alone, and then, at 12:11, the race caught up to me. At the seven mile mark in Framingham the wheelchair leader passed me going about thirteen miles per hour. The rest of the day I fell further and further behind while I covered ground. At Fisk Pond in Natick, the elite runners tracked by. Fisk Pond is at the 15K point, where the elite runners have their private water bottles, each marked up in some distinctive manner. The squeeze bottles are full of brown, blue, red, green fluids and masked in different colors...
...sort of bittersweet tale Hans Christian Andersen might have spun. An old man with a vacant stare was discovered sitting in a wheelchair at a dog-racing park. Two attached notes identified him as an Alzheimer's patient in need of round-the-clock nursing care. Outrage and sympathy poured in from around the country, and complete strangers offered to take...