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...Like other tabs, WWN had its evergreen celebrities. One was John F. Kennedy, who would show up every few years glimpsed behind estate gates. In 1993, a year before her death, his widow Jackie was "photographed" in a reunion with the wheelchair-bound President. The writers also proclaimed "JFK Proven Alive!" because they held a seance to talk to his ghost and the ghost didn't answer. Can't argue with that logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Late Great Weekly World News | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...fast, I know that. Faster than this chair was made to go.' BEN CARPENTER, 22, of Alamo, Michigan, who in a bizarre collision was pushed down a highway at speeds of up to 80 km/h after his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a large truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...cannot believe you did not choose Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo in the 1947 movie Kiss of Death. When he laughed after pushing that wheelchair-bound lady down the stairs, he gave new meaning to the word evil. Joan Donnelly, Flanders, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...spent more than a year in different rehab facilities, slowly learning to swim and play wheelchair basketball. Then, a few months ago, he heard about Register's camp. He thought this could be his opportunity to fulfill a new dream: making the Paralympics team for wheelchair racing. After just one week of training for the event at the camp, Greene is so fit that he expects his times will be strong enough to land him a spot on the 2008 U.S. team. "I have a lot of confidence I'll be able to make the team," he says. "With some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Training Vets for the 2008 Paralympics | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...When he got hurt, I asked one doctor the prognosis," says Reneé. "He said, 'Your son is going to be in a wheelchair forever.'" Instead, Chase is joining a growing number of people defying such grim predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Walking Away from Paralysis | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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