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Each morning, Kohli, a Swiss national who suffers from multiple sclerosis, which has left him paralyzed from the neck down, maneuvers his wheelchair using a chin-operated control to a table in the living room of his Bangalore bungalow. There, neatly laid out, are his laptop, transceivers and an assortment of amateur radio equipment. His physical movements may be limited, but by using his mouth to manipulate a set of three sticks to work his laptop, Kohli, an avid ham operator, can change the direction and height of the four massive antennas on his roof and communicate with the world...
Technology also allows Kohli to be independently mobile. In his battery-operated wheelchair, he has clocked some 4,000 km in the past couple of years, visiting friends and shopping at the weekly farmers' market. "My wheelchair is interactive," Kohli jokes. Evenings he spends with his family or eyeballing (as face-to-face meetings are called) local ham buddies over a beer at the neighborhood pub. "I gave up the Swiss climate that I loved," he says. "I thought: What use is the climate if I have to spend the rest of my life in a ghetto?" India and innovations...
Someone very wise once said, "A sport is something that you can?t ask someone else to do for you." In other words, if I were confined to a wheelchair, I could still play chess with exactly the same degree of success as someone who is able-bodied. By that definition, chess is not a sport...
...After she moved to Tamarac, Fla., a friend's husband got Parkinson's disease. "They had no coverage, and she had to give up her house," says Zeman, who bought a lifetime policy just before she turned 65. As a result of diabetes, she now uses a wheelchair. Her LTC policy pays for a home health aide for about nine hours...
...good friends" line. This week her publicist confirmed what those in nerddom feared all along: not only are the couple involved, they're engaged. Alba is 20. Weatherly is 32. It seems superfluous to mention that this is Alba's first marriage, but hey, it is. Weatherly, who plays wheelchair-bound cyberjournalist Logan Cale, was married once before, to actress Amelia Heinle. He has previously described Alba as "exceptionally cool." Only a cyberjournalist could be so eloquent...