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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In The Waves | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Kenny Smith, | Title: Iraqi ties to terrorism are real, despite Crimson Staff claims | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: How The Wedge Issues Cut | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Harvard could not have done much more than they did, said Ellison, commenting on the Universitys willingness to accommodate her and her mother. Of course there were limitations that [the administration] could not get around. The Houses by the river are almost impossible to make accessible by wheelchair...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Superman Met Superwoman | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

Lewis, who is in police custody for an unrelated incident, was wheeled into court in a wheelchair wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. Quinlan is expected to rule on Monday whether to admit Lewis’ testimony in the form of a sealed affidavit he gave to the defense attorneys...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawyers Lay Out Defense Case | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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