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LAX Shooting Today: Gunman targets TSA Agents

LAX shooting

Breaking News A gunman armed with an assault rifle entered a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport today, killed a TSA agent, penetrated deep into the terminal before he was captured by police. Six other people were injured in the incident. The shooting sent hundreds of passengers streaming out of the terminal with many fleeing […]

Google enlisted to fix Obamacare Website

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Google Inc. (GOOG:US), Red Hat Inc. (RHT:US), Oracle Corp. (ORCL:US) and other technology companies are contributing dozens of computer engineers and programmers to help the Obama administration fix the U.S. health-insurance exchange website. Most importantly, the help is arriving as the government’s main site for medical coverage remains plagued by repeated outages a month after its October 1st debut. Michael Dickerson, […]

World’s tallest man weds 5″8 bride

worlds tallest man weds

Standing at 8ft 3 (2m51), Sultan Kosen is the world’s tallest man and a celebrity in his home country of Turkey. He married his 5ft 8 (1.75m) wife, Marve Dibo in a wedding ceremony attended by Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kosen has size 28 feet and had to have […]

The Beginning of Wheelchair Sports

history of wheelchair sports

While historians find that primitive societies had sports, it has not been until recently that wheelchair sports have emerged. Wheelchair sports have evolved because they meet some of the basic needs of the disabled and because wheelchair sports are assumed to play an important role in the rehabilitation process. Wheelchair sports were initiated in the […]

Researchers study how to prevent wheelchair users’ repetitive stress injuries.

wheelchair stress study

The wheelchair that had been Lucy Spruill’s friend for 30 years helping her achieve a master’s degree, a career, a home and a family turned against her. Spruill learned three years ago at age 50 that she gradually had torn the tendons in both shoulders in part because she pushed improperly. “I couldn’t raise my hands to comb my […]

Website Tells You How Many Times You’ll See Your Parents Before They Die

see your folks website

“We’re so busy growing up we sometimes we forget that they are also growing old.” That’s the tagline of See Your Folks, a new website that uses life expectancy data from the World Health Organization to determine how many visits one will get in with their parents before they pass. That’s right: The “they” in question […]

Back in 2005: Ms. Wheelchair can stand, stripped of her title

ms wheelchair wisconsin standing

Ms. Wheelchair can stand, so she’s stripped of her title A new Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been crowned after pageant leaders stripped the original winner of the title when she appeared in a newspaper photograph standing up. The announcement of the new winner Tuesday came amid protests over pageant officials’ decision last week to take the crown […]

Safer Travel for Wheelchair Users

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Six years ago, a twenty-one-year-old man from Michigan, received national media coverage by escaping an extreme high-speed highway accident, when his power wheelchair got jammed in the front of a semi-truck. He survived the incident but incited a question for many people, are wheelchair users travelling safe in their vehicle? Millions of people who remain […]

Obamacare sites cost more than all social media websites combined

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An array of issues surrounding the recently launched websites for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act have rendered them largely unavailable during the last week, and a lack of funding might not be to blame. With the official launch of so-called Obamacare last Tuesday, millions of Americans flocked instantly to brand new Web portals where […]