Word: wheelchairs
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...VILLA IN BEIJING, DENG Xiaoping, 91, sits in a wheelchair unable to speak. Sometimes he is shown a document, specially printed in oversized characters. He nods, shakes his head or simply stares. One of his daughters then attempts to decipher his meaning. Years ago, Deng resigned from his official positions and tried to retire, but Chinese tradition and the ethos of the Communist Party conspire to force him to rule, or pretend to rule, until the moment he is pronounced dead. While he lingers, dozens of party elders, senior military leaders, provincial kingpins and Politburo members are maneuvering for influence...
...cooperative mood will last for long. Still, the Simpson case, which has inspired so much division, has also offered some scenes of unexpected harmony. There was a remarkable one on the last day of the trial. During the 15-minute morning break, Simpson's mother Eunice, who uses a wheelchair, could be seen next to Nicole Brown's mother Juditha, who was sitting on a hallway bench next to Arnelle Simpson, the defendant's daughter. Dominique Brown, Nicole's sister, knelt by Eunice. All four women were talking and touching each other. If they can find common ground, maybe there...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who knew intelligence when he saw it, judged Franklin Roosevelt "a second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Born and educated as an aristocrat, F.D.R. had polio and needed a wheelchair for most of his adult life. Yet, far from becoming a self-pitying wretch, he developed an unbridled optimism that served him and the country well during the Depression and World War II--this despite, or because of, what Princeton professor Fred Greenstein calls Roosevelt's "tendency toward deviousness and duplicity...
...hundreds of patients. Iacono's unusual solution involved surgically destroying a tiny portion of the brain that some doctors think becomes overactive during the course of the illness. At first the operation on Sellarole seemed successful. Then she became paralyzed on her left side, forcing her into a wheelchair. Sellarole and her new doctors believe that Iacono destroyed too much of her brain tissue, thereby crippling her. The surgeon has maintained that her condition is unrelated to his operation...
When Breslin's chair broke down an hour later, she was once again at the mercy of others. After telephoning a disabled-access taxi service, she had to wait nearly two hours. The driver charged $90 to transport her and Martinez to a wheelchair-repair shop across the bay. Strapped in her chair like furniture, Breslin rocked uncomfortably in the rear of the van with each high-speed freeway turn. A technician fixed her electric motor, and soon a friend arrived to help her get home. Such is the life of the disabled: determined, resourceful and, all too often, reliant...