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...grenade explosion and, as he describes in his brutally honest memoir, Strong at the Broken Places, came home to battle indifferent medical care, bouts of depression and social rejection. Among the low points: going out on a date and, while crossing the street, sliding out of his wheelchair into oncoming traffic. Through sheer determination, Cleland was elected state senator from his hometown, headed up the Veterans Administration under President Carter and went on to become Georgia's top statewide vote getter as a three-term secretary of state...
Then the artist regressed into his character. Shakur carried a gun and shot at people. He escaped conviction on a series of assault charges, but a 1993 sexual-abuse complaint stuck. He arrived for sentencing in a wheelchair; days earlier, he had been shot five times in a Manhattan "robbery" he regarded as a failed hit. Out on appeal last October, he sought protection under the wing of the massive, much feared Knight, who was deeply embroiled in his feud with Bad Boy and the East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings...
Improvements made to Sanders in the latest round of renovation include: new voice reinforcement audio systems; improved house and stage lighting systems; addition of a production communication system; improved wheelchair access; a new concert grand piano; and, fully restored woodwork...
...number of hip replacements swelled from 49,000 to 83,000, and knee replacements almost quadrupled, to 131,000. Typically following fractures, the surgery restored patients to the level of mobility they enjoyed before the bone break. That has meant liberation from a walker or wheelchair--and from a housebound existence...
...Reeve barely mentioned Clinton in his speech, and when he talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns kill kids too. And of course Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to center stage with a coolly effective defense of her own child advocacy, as the image of daughter Chelsea loomed large on the screen behind her. (Message...