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Crippled for life, she lends helping hand 4 Jul 2009 18:50 GMT
... NEW DELHI: A polio infected injection was all it took to cripple a healthy toddler for life. But ...
Gehrig gives strength to others with ALS 4 Jul 2009 09:20 GMT
... reported his illness for the first time, many described it as a form of polio. That led fans to believe that Gehrig might survive. They imagined him hobbled, perhaps ...
George Ferguson: Pool needed people power 4 Jul 2009 08:20 GMT
... years old. We had recently returned from living in Gibraltar where I had contracted polio. I had been extremely fortunate and was being given water exercises, I am sure ...
Who's a sky-high dancer? 4 Jul 2009 07:22 GMT
... point he even dishes dirt on Yopie Starfurik , who uses crutches after suffering polio. "She's irritating the s . . . out of me I just want to ...
Pool needed people power 4 Jul 2009 06:20 GMT
... years old. We had recently returned from living in Gibraltar where I had contracted polio. I had been extremely fortunate and was being given water exercises, I am sure ...

Warm feelings of Warm Springs 4 Jul 2009 05:31 GMT
... most famous presidential acronym, was the 32nd President of the United States and a polio victim. He came here for the curative powers of the 87-degree temperatures of the ...
Science & the Public : Become a guinea pig 4 Jul 2009 05:24 GMT
... Past legions of human guinea pigs have helped medicine wipe out smallpox, virtually eradicate polio, develop antibiotics and life-saving diagnostic procedures, and improve surgical techniques. By participating in future ...
Local calendar, July 4 4 Jul 2009 04:32 GMT
... July 18, Borders, 3833 Grand Ave., Chino. Free. Information: (909) 548-3604, San Gabriel/Pomona Valley polio support group: Information and experiences associated with polio are shared. The group meets in ...
Dr. Elizabeth Child transitions from fundraising back to classical piano 4 Jul 2009 03:30 GMT
... good for the community and also for the world. They’re known for helping eradicate polio. I have grown at the two jobs and in Rotary because I’ve had leadership ...
Park improves Magnetic Springs appearance 4 Jul 2009 00:51 GMT
... Tourism collapsed, according to some, after the discovery of modern medicinal cures, including the polio vaccine. The last hotel resort was torn down in the 1980s. After the third ...

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Book review: Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown 3 Jul 2009 23:41 GMT
... least likely to succeed. Her father died when she was ten; her sister caught polio. Helen excelled at school but it was never enough to please her passive-aggressive mother. ...
JOHN TAKES OVER ROTARY REINS 3 Jul 2009 20:22 GMT
... for Living Waters Ministries, a charity based in Rwanda. Rotary International, through its End Polio Now (previously PolioPlus) campaign, is committed to the eradication of polio from the world, ...
WWF: Ugandan vet scoops top Whitley conservation award 3 Jul 2009 17:31 GMT
... Bwindi than previously thought, and concerns have been raised about virulent new strains of polio and antibiotic-resistant bacteria transferring between humans, gorillas and livestock in the area. Gladys first ...
Alternative medicine facts 3 Jul 2009 13:30 GMT
... penicillin (derived from a natural source - mold) and life-saving vaccines such as the polio and other vaccines, researchers turned their attention to pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical remedies can be quantified ...
Red, white and viewed: America's reflection on TV 3 Jul 2009 10:10 GMT
... since the Puritans. "American Dreams" 2002-05 The Pryor family in 1960s Philadelphia coped with polio, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War in a drama created after the ...
Do The Right Thing At Moccasin Bend - And Response (4) 3 Jul 2009 09:10 GMT
... Do The Right Thing At Moccasin Bend - And Response (4) First off I would like ...
Anti-polio drive underway 3 Jul 2009 03:33 GMT
... ISLAMABAD: Anti-polio drive with a special focus on immunising children of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is ...
Inventor wins award for 'handheld lab' 3 Jul 2009 01:11 GMT
... said. Dr Atkins grew up in a poor family with a mother afflicted by polio and spent his early years inventing devices to help her, Ms Evans said. He ...
Kingsport's 56th Fourth of July Parade ready to roll 3 Jul 2009 00:43 GMT
... KINGSPORT — The year was 1955. A vaccine for polio was developed, the “Mickey Mouse Club” and “The $64,000 Question” premiered on TV, and ...
Strengthening social safety nets 3 Jul 2009 00:41 GMT
... two projects for $135 million to help Pakistan strengthen social safety nets and eradicate polio. Of the two, the $60 million Pakistan Social Safety Net Technical Assistance Project is ...

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Owatonna Rotary, The Early Edition, awards scholarship 2 Jul 2009 20:10 GMT
... regionally and internationally to combat hunger, improve health, provide education, promote peace and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self. One of its main concentrations is programs for ...
Dragon boat transforms paddlers 2 Jul 2009 19:03 GMT
... the powerful athletes they are today. At Tuesday’s practice, a woman who once had polio dropped her crutches off on the dock before climbing aboard. Several of the teammates ...
Rotary president outlines agenda 2 Jul 2009 18:33 GMT
... will continue to contribute $1,000 per year for the next five years to the Polio Plus Campaign, which has made it possible for two billion children to receive vaccines. ...
Africa: AIDS hits health services 2 Jul 2009 17:43 GMT
... 14 percent. Similarly, as regions with low HIV prevalence were vaccinating more children against polio shortly after birth, children in high-prevalence regions were increasingly less likely to be vaccinated. ...
Michael Jackson's children were banned from looking in mirrors and had their toys thrown away each night. So what kind of father was Jacko? 2 Jul 2009 16:53 GMT
... was born into hardship in Alabama. At 18 months, she was struck down with polio and had to wear callipers on her legs until well into her teens. Aged ...