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  • Quadriplegic, unable to eat or breathe on his own.

    CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2008 2008

  • JERRY KERR, DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATE: Quadriplegic refers to our level of injury, cervical levels, not necessarily your ability to move around.

    CNN Transcript May 24, 2008 2008

  • Quadriplegic rugby players armor themselves in battered aluminum wheelchairs that look like something straight out of Mad Max, and they hurtle around the court at astonishing speeds, smashing into the opposing team so hard that sometimes people fly right out of their chair.

    Murderball 2005

  • He was the champion Quadriplegic Rugby player for the American team, which won for eleven years in a row before he passed forty and failed the tryout.

    Murderball 2005

  • Quadriplegic shooting victim Heather Grossman, who has turned her horrific tale of domestic violence into a crusade, took her story and cause to the Oval Office on Tuesday for a 30-minute meeting with President Bush.

    Compassionate conservatism Sinfonian 2007

  • The movie centers around the sport of murderball, a.k.a. Quadriplegic rugby, a.k.a. "kill the man with the ball."

    Murderball 2005

  • Quadriplegic kids in wheelchairs making left turns via a straw?

    kite and key party 2007

  • Quadriplegic shooting victim Heather Grossman, who has turned her horrific tale of domestic violence into a crusade, took her story and cause to the Oval Office on Tuesday for a 30-minute meeting with President Bush.

    Archive 2007-11-04 Sinfonian 2007

  • The quick summary: Quadriplegic men play wheelchair rugby.

    chicagojo Diary Entry chicagojo 2006

  • Quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, an armchair detective with both physical challenges and technological advantages unknown to Nero Wolfe and the Old Man in the Corner, goes up against a magician turned New York serial killer.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

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