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- Tortoise on wheels finds love at Israeli zoo
- JERUSALEM AFP — Arava the tortoise may never walk again, but a makeshift wheelchair has given the 10-year-old reptile wings by helping her to find a mate at an Israeli zoo, her keepers said on Tuesday. "Arava came to us a few months ago," Shmulik Yedvad, a spokesman for...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Daniel Rubin: For disabled, 'a major step backward'
- You might not want to slog through the 1,000 pages of regulations, cost estimates, commentaries and impact statements the government released last week in proposing revisions to the Americans With Disabilities Act. Let Steve Gold, the public-interest lawyer who forced Philadelphia to cut curbs into sidewalks, break it down for...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Cadaveric Bone Implants Emerge as Cheaper Alternatives to Metallic Prosthetics in Bone Regeneration Therapy
- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- As cadaveric bone implants have the same structural integrity as a normal human bone, they will integrate easily with the body and support the bodily functions well. Since it mimics the normal human bone in its chemical composition, these cadaveric implants, once sterilized and placed inside...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Australian man charged with driving wheelchair while drunk
- SYDNEY AFP — An Australian man has been charged with driving his motorised wheelchair down a highway while drunk, police said Monday. Motorists were forced to drive around the 64-year-old man after he fell asleep in an exit lane on the Captain Cook Highway in northern Queensland state at...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- In Hollywood terms, here's Finals script
- LOS ANGELES -- Now that the teams have changed coasts -- and also direction, the Lakers fervently hope -- maybe we should put a little bit of Hollywood into the NBA Finals. The spotlight has fallen upon Paul Pierce's wheelchair, and a formerly homeless guy off...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- 112 candles for Europe's oldest man
- LONDON AFP — Europe's oldest man, World War I veteran Henry Allingham, marked his 112th birthday on Friday by enjoying a flypast of fighter aircraft from the Battle of Britain. The Briton watched from a wheelchair as a vintage Lancaster bomber flanked by two Spitfires roared over a Royal...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- PHA meets federal rules for wheelchair accessibility
- The Philadelphia Housing Authority now meets federal wheelchair accessibility requirements, according to an independent analysis released yesterday.The analysis found that 7 percent of PHA's nearly 14,000 living units are wheelchair accessible, surpassing the 5 percent minimum required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development."Reports show all of our...
- Research articles 2008-05-03
- PERSPECTIVES
- “ Going after a torchbearer in a wheelchair, [that] I have no respect for. ” San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, criticizing Parisians who mobbed a paraplegic bearer during the torch’s European leg, before it arrived in California ...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- ASSEMBLY GLANCE
- College textbooks College students may have a little more money for burgers and beer next year after the House overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday that is intended to reduce the cost of textbooks. Many professors order new textbooks every three years or so, leaving...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Letters to the editor
- Unbelievable treatment Here we are living in a capital city. It amazes me that in 2008, we still discriminate against a group of indivduals. In Topeka, the going rate for a taxi cab ride is $2.50 plus $2 a mile. That is a little outrageous, but...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Three-Quarters of Voters Say Home Based Care is Part of the Medicare Solution
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Contacts: Michael Reinemer, +1-703-535-1881, or Tilly Gambill, +1-703-535-1894, both of the American Association for Homecare Four Out of Five Voters Favor Stronger Medicare Coverage for Wheelchairs, Oxygen, and Other Home Medical Equipment and Services ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An overwhelming majority (78 percent)...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- Thorpe sets the pace
- SONOMA -- Where do we start with Jim Thorpe, the man of 10,000 words and, Thursday, very few shots? That he qualified for the Charles Schwab Cup Championship by fewer dollars than he's liable to plop down on a table in Vegas? That being...
- Research articles 2007-10-26
- United States Files Suit Against Long Island Housing Development Company and Architect for Violating Fair Housing Act Requirements
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD +1-202- 514-1888 WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division and Roslynn R. Mauskopf, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, today announced the filing of a federal complaint against Sayville Development Group...
- Research articles 2007-08-28
- Clench your teeth for tunes, Japan researchers say
- TOKYO AFP — Japanese train commuters who don't want to reach conspicuously into their bags or pockets to start their iPods will soon be able to do it more subtly -- by simply clenching their teeth. Japanese researchers have developed head gear that uses infrared sensors and a microcomputer...
- Research articles 2007-08-20
- Tongue-steered wheelchair helps lick mobility problem
- PARIS AFP — Engineers in Britain and the United States have devised a wheelchair that the disabled can steer using their tongue, New Scientist says. The gadget works thanks to a tiny microphone that points inside the ear canal and is sealed off from outside noise by a plug....
- Research articles 2007-07-04
- Wheelchair-bound man goes for a ride, snagged by a truck
- WASHINGTON AFP — A man in a wheelchair was pushed down a road at high speed for 10 kilometers six miles, after the chair's handles snagged the truck's grill at a red light, but came to no harm, police said Friday. "I'm fine. I just went for quite a...
- Research articles 2007-06-08
- Man sentenced for drunk driving in a wheelchair
- OTTAWA AFP — A Canadian man who was arrested driving a borrowed motorized wheelchair while drunk has been convicted of impaired driving, officials told AFP Thursday. Patrick Shanahan, 35, a self-described alcoholic who had already been convicted once of drunk driving a regular vehicle in a separate incident, was...
- Research articles 2007-06-07
- Spanish police pull over man in wheelchair on expressway
- MADRID AFP — Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who was riding along on a expressway after he got lost while looking for a brothel, police and local media said Wednesday. The 42-year-old man, who is tetraplegic, drove the specially-designed wheelchair which keeps him in...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- 25 feared burnt alive as fire rips through Latvia disabled home
- RIGA AFP — Rescuers pulled charred bodies from the smoking rubble of a home for the disabled in western Latvia, where at least 25 people were feared burnt alive Friday in the worst fire in the country's history. Water sprayed on to the burning home turned to ice in...
- Research articles 2007-02-23
- A fighter in front lines for wage law
- Among those whom low-wage workers can thank for getting a bump in their paychecks this week is a soft-spoken but tenacious lawmaker from Philadelphia. State Sen. Christine M. Tartaglione, along with a handful of Democratic colleagues, toiled for six years to overcome powerful Republican leadership and business interests to win...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
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