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...Wheelchair seating, my ass. Let's see you earn...
...online buzz, and a book proposal about IT netted a $250,000 advance from Harvard Business School Press, though reportedly the publisher has no idea what the book will be about. IT was invented by DEAN KAMEN, a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and inventor of a wheelchair that can climb stairs. Kamen is the subject of an upcoming book by journalist Steve Kemper; the book's proposal, first reported last week by Inside.com reveals that Kamen's newest invention has grizzled venture capitalists predicting Kamen will eclipse Bill Gates in wealth when IT debuts in 2002. Lives...
Assistant Dean of the College Karen Avery '87 said she found that the door to her office had been shifted slightly, a small change made necessary by wheelchair accessibility concerns. As a result, though, Avery said her filing cabinet is now "placeless" and she will need to buy new shelves to fit everything...
Kamen is the founder of DEKA Research of Manchester, N.H. and has won numerous prizes and awards for his mechanical contributions to medical science. He invented the portable insulin pump and a wheelchair that can negotiate stairs, sand and gravel...
After a struggle of nearly 60 years, a bronze life-size statue of FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT in his wheelchair will be dedicated in Washington by PRESIDENT CLINTON this week. Roosevelt, who never took an unaided step after his polio attack in 1921, directed the war against the Great Depression and the Axis powers from a wheelchair, but most were not aware of his disability: he obscured it, fearful of electoral disapproval. Only two photographs of him in a wheelchair exist. Red tape and partisan wrangling stymied the memorial until five years ago, but then the arguments within the Roosevelt family...