Word: wheelchairs
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...father. She made fast friends with the outcasts at school yet wanted nothing more than to be accepted by Marchese, the cheerleading captain who ran with the cool crowd. "She has a kind heart," says her mother Catherine. "In school she made friends with a girl in a wheelchair and helped her out. She would always put herself between those who were being picked on" and their tormentors. But Bush just as readily recoiled when those taunts were turned on her and students started making fun of her appearance. Bush's parents claim the ridicule was so severe...
...write two respected books. This third one ends all too soon, without telling us, among other things, about her third marriage, now 20 years running, to Ben Sonnenberg, whose mind soars as founding editor of the highly regarded literary review Grand Street despite his being confined to a wheelchair. But their story gives us something to look forward...
Kamen, winner of the 2000 National Technology Medal and creator of a wearable insulin pump and a wheelchair that climbs stairs, has formed a company called ACROS that will craft "motorized, self-propelled, wheeled personal mobility aids, namely wheelchairs, scooters, carts, and chariots," Inside Magazine reported...
...worked as a magazine reporter and insurance agent to support her two children. A founding member of the post-war Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations, which today has almost 1 million members, Kushida lobbied for gender equality and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Protesting militarism to the end, wheelchair-bound Kushida led a 2,000-person march in Tokyo in February 1999, the month she turned...
...factory like MTV's stunt-comedy show Jackass. You see its young male pranksters riding and crashing shopping carts; getting turned upside down in a sloshingly full portable toilet; swallowing a goldfish and puking it into a bowl; dressing up like a disabled person and getting pushed off a wheelchair. And you think--and you know how this sounds even as you think it--This is funny...