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...help restore mobility by helping people avoid obstacles, recognize landmarks in unfamiliar environments and detect very simple shapes. "This is not true vision," Veraart stresses. "And it's definitely not a cure for blindness. It's something to help people better cope with their impairment. It's like a wheelchair: it doesn't help people walk again, but it does help them get around. As a technological solution, that's not bad at all." Marie agrees. She has undergone extensive, and dangerous, brain surgery to use the MIVIP and she still shows up every week at Veraart...
...divorced, and after two years she bowed to convention and broke off the relationship. Ironically, her subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter, World War II correspondent and co-author of Thunder Out of China with Theodore H. White, by suicide; in Captiva, Florida. Fadiman reported on World War II for TIME and LIFE magazines after her husband Melville was killed in a freak plane accident...
...Olympic torch burned its way from Olympia to Atlanta, then started winding toward Salt Lake, the ground began to warm. The flame will travel 13,500 miles by dogsled and wheelchair and snowshoe and tennis shoe and tugboat. Rudy Giuliani carried it, exempted from the organizing committee's rule against elected officials as torchbearers. Lyz Glick, widow of Jeremy, a hero of Flight 93, carried it, along with 11,498 others, through frigid streets lined with cheering people--and that was just for the torch...
...something of a shock - in fact, it was her 101-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, whose ill health had been the focus of public concern for months. Yet Margaret too had been unwell. When last seen in public, just before Christmas, she was confined to a wheelchair, her face disfiguringly puffy - apparently from medication - and shrouded by enormous dark glasses. With both her left side and her eyesight seriously affected by strokes, Margaret was a frail, spectral figure - in poignant contrast to the vibrant young woman who once rewrote the book on proper royal behavior...
...patients from ultrasound rooms to hospital rooms and anywhere else they need to be. With the floppy white hair and stream of self-deprecating and ridiculous humor, Steve Griffin seems like he would be a comforting person for a sick and scared child to look up at from a wheelchair. Or, for that matter, a scared-sick first-time van driver—because in Griffin’s eyes, the PBHA volunteers can do no wrong...