Word: wheelchairs
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...scrambling over rocks like a dedicated exercise buff. In fact, Theodosakis, 34, a Tucson, Arizona, physician specializing in preventive and sports medicine, regards himself as a medical miracle. Only a few years ago, he was so lame from arthritis that he had to use crutches and occasionally even a wheelchair...
After their nine-month-old son Jonathan died of spinal muscular atrophy in 1995, the Barzachs organized a project to build a half-acre, wheelchair-accessible playground with the help of legions of volunteers and dozens of religious groups, companies and nonprofit organizations. Says Peter: "Jonathan's very short life had a meaning. This playground has a purpose for other people...
...photographs: the first room is light gray, the next room medium gray, and this final room dark gray, set with a few giant portraits like luminous beacons in the dimness. There is Frances Bean Cobain, almost frightening with her enormous eyes. Christopher Reeve, mounted on an elaborate wheelchair, somehow looks just as much like Superman as ever. The exhibition's final statement is a long, large strip of white upon which the figure of Bill T. Jones is repeated over and over again, in different moments of his dance. Frozen in motion, the language of his body is written clearly...
Crosby recently acquired a power wheelchair and a handicapped-accessible toilet, stove and sink...
Crosby wishes for a computer with a CD Rom, so that she can begin working at home toward her GED. According to Schultz, adult basic education programs are difficult for her to attend because they are often not wheelchair-accessible and she has a learning disability in addition to her head injury...