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Giving Amputees the World Over a Helping Hand

When industrial designer Ernie Meadows lost his 18-year-old daughter in a car crash, he wanted to do something to help the world in her memory. He had heard about children in current and former conflict zones who had lost their hands to land mines, so he decided to build a simple prosthetic that would be cheap enough to...

Shark Attack Survivors Fight to Save Sharks

(Oct. 6) -- Captain Ahab would be appalled. A group of shark attack survivors, all of whom either lost limbs or suffered permanent injury in their attacks, came together in New York City recently to fight for the very predator that nearly killed them. On Sept. 13, the Pew Environment Group held a press conference in which...

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...