Word: wheelchairs
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Without the AFDC payment, Crosby says, she would not be able to see her son or participate in his care--taxis are too expensive and trains and buses are often not wheelchair-accessible. Buses with broken wheelchair lifts have stranded her in the street many times, she says...
...Vietnam hero confined to a wheelchair because of his war wounds, Cleland was Georgia's youngest Secretary of State in 1983. He declined to answer the TIME/CQ questionnaire because he considers it "so skeletal and oversimplified as to be distortive." And he has waged a campaign that avoids a complex agenda, emphasizing job security, affordable college education and improved access to health insurance as priorities...
...killer was on the loose, and it had Lindagail Dixon, 42, of Spokane, Washington, squarely in its sights. It was her own immune system, which had gone berserk, attacking the joints in her body and crippling her so badly that she often had to use a wheelchair. Left unchecked, Dixon's disorder, rheumatoid arthritis, might have shortened her life 10 to 15 years. But last summer her doctor placed her on experimental therapy that actually wrestled her rogue immune system back into line. "I can go jogging again. I can work 10 to 12 hours on my feet," says...
...wheelchair reclined at a 35-degree angle, Ellison is covered in a green plaid flannel blanket...
...neck--where a man's Adam's apple would be--a clear, plastic tube extends out from underneath her high collar. The tube leads to the back of her wheelchair and connects to a large, black metal...