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Today Bailey is a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic confined to a room at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research in Houston. In December she turned 44, struggling to learn how to navigate a wheelchair she directs via a breathing tube. Though not a bitter person by nature, she wants justice for missing out on her kids' lives, not to mention her own. So this week, in a Corpus Christi courtroom, Bailey's lawyers will take on Ford Motor Co. and its tire supplier, Bridgestone/Firestone. The charge: that a defective tire--and more important, a defective car--took her livelihood. The principal...
Indeed, MacCready thinks that a number of legged devices could be more efficient than wheels for moving about. "You could make a wheelchair that can go up and down stairs," he muses...
...newspaper article about her death juxtaposes customers' fond memories with tragic details of the fire. Wheelchair bound since radiation treatment for a brain tumor left her partially paralyzed two years ago, Lola was trapped inside. Her husband ran for help to their trusted neighbor, an off-duty fire captain. The two men tried to enter the burning building...
Lola's neighbors, who once gathered to help purchase a wheelchair ramp for her house, gathered again to clean up after the fire...
Working as an Egyptian immigrant in a predominantly white suburb, Lola took care to invite newcomers to sit at the counter with her regular customers. Her deli is the only spot in town where business executives would mix with construction workers. When her brain tumor confined her to a wheelchair, she keep working, and the customers kept coming, choosing to make their own sandwiches rather than go elsewhere...