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...less than five minutes, and passengers seemed to be handling the preholiday stress well--even the infirm elderly woman who tripped a metal detector and had to laboriously remove her black orthopedic shoes for inspection and watch her purse being ransacked before she was carted off, exhausted, in her wheelchair...
...less than five minutes, and passengers seemed to be handling the preholiday stress well-even the infirm elderly woman who tripped a metal detector and had to laboriously remove her black orthopedic shoes for inspection and watch her purse being ransacked before she was carted off, exhausted, in her wheelchair...
...heart as she tried to help a wounded man; Faris Zeben, a 14-year-old boy who was killed as he tried to buy groceries when a curfew was lifted; Jamal Feyed, one of many who were buried alive in bulldozed homes; and Kemal Zughayer, a man in a wheelchair who was shot as he tried to wheel himself up the street and then was crushed under a tank...
There are some outstanding people who run in Boston with amazing stories. For the last 22 years, 61-year old Dick Hoyt has pushed his son, Rick, in a wheelchair the entire 26.2 miles. Rick, who is 40, has had cerebral palsy since birth. He does not have the ability talk and is completely paralyzed. But he can smile. And every year, as Dick and Rick race by, hours behind the lead runners, they always get the loudest cheers...
...next tests of his health will come outside of Rome. The Pope has scheduled a series of foreign trips in the coming months, including a 10-day visit in late July to Canada, Mexico and Guatemala. If he goes ahead with his travels, John Paul may bring along a wheelchair, a prospect that apparently doesn't shame the first Pope to be photographed in a hospital bed. More important than the Pontiff's legs is his mind. And that so far appears sound. Messori, who recently studied the history of papal health, says he has faith "in the protection...