Word: wheelchairs
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...Very few people have paid such a price," he says, "I'm not religious but I have to believe that God has a plan. God challenged me so that I could lead Taiwan to democracy. My wife has been in a wheelchair for the past 16 years. If I could trade my career, my presidency so that we could walk together again, I would...
...change. (It was worth it alone to see they're giving work to Sarah Chalke, a.k.a. "Roseanne"'s second Becky, and the so-appealing-you-could-pinch-him Donald Faison, a.k.a. "Felicity"'s Tracy.) Best line of advice, from a character pushing a dead woman in a wheelchair: "If you push around a stiff, no one will ask you to do anything...
...safe playgrounds are not new; the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission first published guidelines in 1981. But the rules have gradually become stricter, and in recent years, courts, insurance companies and state governments have given these rules the force of law. Now, with federal regulations passed last year requiring wheelchair access to climbing structures, some playground operators can't afford to replace what they have removed. Says City College of New York environmental psychologist Roger Hart: "I think it's gone...
...guidelines require that swings be set apart from any other structure, with a clearance both in front and back equal to twice the height of the swings, and 6 ft. of clearance on either side. That's most of the space in some private playgrounds. And since a wheelchair ramp must be 12 ft. long for every foot in height, it is practically impossible for some playgrounds to include structures more than a few feet above ground level...
...plainness. A bed. A few chairs. A bureau. A primitive version of a telephone hot line installed on the wall near the head of the bed. A few mementos. Down the hall is the dumbwaiter by which FDR hauled himself up and down from the first floor in his wheelchair, pulling on ropes with counterweights. I wonder what Patton would have said about leadership and character if he had seen Roosevelt hauling himself upstairs in the dumbwaiter...