SUSAN AGER: Reeve&#39;s spirit made him a hero
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The candidates for president are picking apart each others&#39; claims to heroism. This weekend, for example, I spotted a Bush-Cheney billboard near Grand Rapids that read &quot;Boots or flip-flops?
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Oct. 11, 2004 - Christopher Reeve, the Superman actor who showed the world Herculean bravery after a near-fatal spinal cord injury, died Sunday of heart failure.
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Christopher Reeve often said he wanted to be known for something other than playing Superman. But it was real life - not another movie role - that gave the actor the chance to star in his biggest drama: as a spinal cord injury victim championing research in hope that people like him would someday be able to walk again...
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Christopher Reeve, who soared through the air playing the role of the superhero, also soared into the hearts of many, fighting a courageous battle against a paralyzing spinal cord injury.
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Sen. John Kerry dedicated his speech on energy independence Monday to actor Christopher Reeve, whom the Democratic presidential candidate remembered as a passionate environmentalist whose courageous fight against paralysis was "an inspiration to all of us."
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Actor Christopher Reeve died of heart failure at age 52. According to broadcast network reports, the actor lapsed into a coma after going into cardiac arrest at his home in New York.
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Christopher Reeve, the screen and stage actor who starred in &quot;Superman&quot; films and who became an international advocate for spinal cord research after a near-fatal equestrian accident nine years ago in Culpeper, Va.
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Actor Christopher Reeve died at 5:30 pm Sunday of heart failure at the age of 52, after falling into a coma on Saturday. A press release said Reeve was being treated for an infected
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Christopher Reeve, the paralyzed actor who died nine years after a riding accident, worked tirelessly to promote medical advances, especially
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Christopher Reeve dedicated his final years to promoting cutting-edge research in paralysis, including stem cells and experiments aimed at regenerating the spinal cord.
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As an actor playing Superman, Christopher Reeve could never really fly. But, somehow, after a spinal chord injury left him unable to breathe or move a limb on his own, Reeve - the man - learned to soar.
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In &quot;The Brooke Ellison Story,&quot; Reeve set out to dramatize the real-life triumph over adversity of its subject who, at age 11, was struck by a car and paralyzed from the neck down, yet a few years later graduated with honors from Harvard University.
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A doctor from the First Coast was able to spend time with recently deceased actor, Christopher Reeve, whose efforts to promote stem cell research continues to stir up controversy.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The widow of Christopher Reeve urged Americans yesterday to support John F. Kerry in the presidential election because the Democrat supports expanded embryonic stem cell research, but President Bush made his own case for reelection by
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Christopher Reeve&#39;s death has extra significance for Mike Di Scipio. The Colonie resident has been paralyzed since a diving accident in 1999 and he&#39;s been fighting the same fight as Reeve.
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Actor Christopher Reeve became a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research after a near-fatal riding accident left him a quadriplegic.
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A few days after he was paralysed from the neck down in a riding accident in 1995, Superman actor Christopher Reeve told his wife, Dana: &quot;Perhaps we should let me go.