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Quadruple Amputee Is Cooking Up a New Life

(Nov. 23) -- Call it an appetite for life. Just two years after a blood infection nearly killed her and claimed all four of her limbs, Cheryl Douglass is back full force. She dances at her son's wedding, chops scallions for Thanksgiving dinner with her prosthetic hands and is writing a cookbook for amputees with a...

Legless, Armless Frenchman Swims English Channel

LONDON (Sept. 20) -- It sounds like the opening line of a politically incorrect joke: How did the limbless Frenchman get across the English Channel? But if you put that question to Philippe Croizon, who lost his arms and legs 16 years ago, you'd get a serious and simple answer: flippers, years of training and sheer...

Despite War Wounds, 3 US Vets Climb Kilimanjaro

(Aug. 12) – Three U.S. war veterans who lost their legs in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, have hiked, crawled and clawed their way to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro atop five prosthetic legs and only one good leg among them. The trio took six days to climb Africa's tallest mountain, 19,340 feet high, as part of...