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• n  a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant

• Is technology relevant? Ask a wheelchair-bound ham operator, poor Indian farmers and an expat son worried about his ill dad.
• BTW, I didn't know Krauthammer was confined to a wheelchair.
• The brooding figure of the Great Emancipator in Washington's Lincoln Memorial has become a symbol for a new kind of freedom for those who are confined to wheelchairs.

News & Articles

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• U.S. wheelchair team practice set at UNO
  The public is invited to attend the U.S. men’s wheelchair basketball team’s practice at 7 p.m. Saturday at the UNO Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) building.
  June 17, 2013 - Omaha World-Herald
• Hit, run kills man in wheelchair
  A wheelchair-bound 65-year-old Somerset man his neighbors called a friend to all was killed by a hit-and-run driver late Friday night after coming back from a clam bake. James Moore was apparently struck and knocked out of his motorized wheelchair. He was pronounced dead yesterday morning at Charlton Memorial Hospital. Neighbors and friends said they will always remember Moore as a kind ...
  June 16, 2013 - Boston Herald
• Somerset man who used wheelchair, 65, killed in hit and run; police looking for gray Toyota
  A 65-year-old man who used a motorized wheelchair was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Somerset late Friday night, police said. At about 11:43 p.m., police found James Moore, of Somerset, apparently knocked out of his wheelchair, lying on Read Street close to Southway Drive, about a quarter mile from his residence, police said in a statement released this morning. Moore was pronounced dead at ...
  June 15, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in KHON2
  To regenerate a severed spinal cord and lift someone from a wheelchair. to spur insulin production and spare a child from a lifetime of needles,said President Obama.
• Heather Mills in FOXNews
  She has called me many, many names before even meeting me when I was in a wheelchair,Mills said.
• Kevin Everett in INDYchannel.com
  This week, with the assistance of a walker, I was able to take steps, and I have been able to move in my wheelchair, both of which are great triumphs for me,Everett said in a letter posted on the Bills Web site. "I maintain a positive...