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Growing old equals aches and pains, stiff joints and restricted movements. The biggest fear on top of that is the chance slipping on wet surfaces, like on the porch or in the bathroom. Despite the varied physically impairing conditions, many folks...
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Thirty-two men and women from across the United States have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2009, the scholarship trust announced Sunday.
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Italian tenor Marcello Giordani has pulled off the rare feat of singing two major roles in a single day at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
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President-elect Barack Obama planned to announce the leaders of his economic team Monday, naming Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary and Lawrence Summers to direct...
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Obama transition officials say the president-elect has chosen New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner to be treasury secretary.
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Scientists say they’re searching for remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before seemingly falling to earth in western Canada.
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The father of a college student whose suicide was broadcast live over a webcam said Saturday he was appalled by the virtual audience that egged on his son and called...
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The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite...
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Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto it.
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Betty James, who co-founded the company that made the Slinky and beat the odds as a single mother in the late 1950s to become a successful executive, has died. She was...
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Small-business owner Greg Mohr was hopping in and out of cars at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but he isn’t in the market to buy one. Neither are retirees Greg and...
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A daredevil hopes to propel himself across a southern Colorado canyon using a jet pack powered by hydrogen peroxide.
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Since the Nov. 4 election, investors have been abandoning stocks in a kind of slow-motion crash that experts say underlines just how anxious they are about what is...
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The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches.
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The mother of a Michigan teenager who fatally poisoned her grandmother with morphine is charged in the unrelated slaying of a Kentucky man.
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President-elect Barack Obama has named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary.
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President-elect Barack Obama has named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary.
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An Arkansas man has been sentenced to prison for fatally shooting a stylist who was taking too long to braid his hair.
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A West Virginia mother faces charges after being accused of burning the word “wimp” into her 6-year-old daughter’s neck.
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The flowers have wilted and the candles are burned out at a makeshift memorial where an immigrant from Ecuador was stabbed to death in what police say was a hate crime...
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Eager for a quick start, Democratic congressional leaders intend to begin work in early January on priority legislation so it can be ready for President-elect Barack...
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People with cancers and other severe medical conditions will get quicker action on disability claims under a new Social Security program.
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Like many commuters, Ron Marino is incredulous about revelations that nearly every employee who asked for disability benefits after retiring from the nation’s...
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The nation’s largest commuter railroad is wondering why most of its retiring employees receive disability benefits.
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Wheelchair-bound Sounak Banerjee writes about his frustrating - and futile - attempts to get himself a job
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A look at some projected total costs to various types of facilities of complying with the proposed ADA regulations:_Indoor service establishments, $1.6 billion._Office...
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The University of Michigan agreed to improve wheelchair access at one of the nation’s largest football stadiums as part of a deal approved Monday with a paralyzed...
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An infusion of cash from Congress and President Bush will help the Social Security Administration cut into the monthslong backlog for disability benefits for thousands...
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Some NFL players will donate part of their paychecks from the league’s Dec. 23 games to help needy retired players.Kansas City Chiefs lineman Kyle Turley said at...
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A House committee that criticized the NFL’s retiree benefit system asked the league and the players’ union Friday to turn over information on football...
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Pegasus has come up with some enthusiastic personal transportation concept for the differently abled.
Wheelchair with electric drive motor and gyroscopic sensors is an...
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Under fire from injured retirees who say they were denied sufficient benefits, the head of the National Football League Players Association asked Congress on Tuesday...
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Can you move beyond your disability and actually turn it into your ability?
Well, Shivani Gupta has truly done it. In 1992, she met with a car accident, which made her...
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Thousands of preventable suicides is increasingly occurring in the US. What is the root to this tragic phenomenon? Most of us clearly and reasonably have the reply to...
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The State of Depression in America has been released by the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA). It is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive analysis on...
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Britain government has launched a disability guide, with the aim to take better care of the children suffering from disabilities.
The government opined that very few...
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A report presented by the physicians of Cornell University and the International Nutritionist revealed that the orange drink, if taken regularly, can reduce Third World...
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Jerry Doser, owner of Adventure Mini Golf demonstrates a hole on the course in Lake Worth, Fla., Friday, July 4, 2008. Miniature golf courses are one of hundreds of areas that would be affected by proposed regulatory changes under the Americans with...
