Word: wheelchairs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CAPTURED. ABU ABBAS, 54, leader of a Palestinian terrorist group that hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, shooting American Leon Klinghoffer to death and pushing him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean Sea; in a raid by U.S. Special Forces; in Baghdad, where he had been living freely. Abbas is in the custody of the U.S. If extradited to Italy, where he was convicted, he would face a life sentence; if tried in the U.S., he could face death...
...suspicions about his friend's death: "I just think fate was cruel to him." Collovati organized a testimonial game of ex-players in Genoa to honor their ailing comrade, six months before his death. The crowd of 25,000 roared as Signorini was pushed around the field in a wheelchair by his children, who were too young to remember seeing their father play. Rereading a print-out of a thank-you e-mail he got afterward, Collovati takes a deep breath. "You gave me great joy," Signorini wrote to his friend. "You made my children understand who their father really...
...brought in in a wheelchair, blood caked on his face and a keffiyeh wrapped around his head. "He was on a bus, a civilian bus and the Americans shot him," said Yunis Yasin Suleyman...
DIED. ARTHUR GUYTON, 83, eminent cardiovascular physiologist; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Jackson, Miss. While recovering from polio in 1947, he invented a special leg brace and an electric wheelchair. Later he wrote The Textbook of Medical Physiology, first published in 1956 and a best seller ever since...
...Harvard students. Jazz Programs at Harvard were founded in 1971 to recognize significant contributors to jazz and to bring the genre to the general public. Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 general; $8 for students and senior citizens. Available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Wheelchair accessible. Sanders Theatre...