Twelve wounded troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, several missing both their legs, were clustered Monday around two long tables at the vice president’s home. Joe and Jill Biden’s third annual holiday meal for injured military personnel fell on an especially poisonous day of partisan finger-pointing in Washington. A special congressional “supercommittee” admitted that it had failed to cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion. Read full article > >

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In 1986, Bob Wieland, who lost his legs in Vietnam, completed the race in about 98 hours on his hands.

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Bob Wieland’s Athletic Accomplishments Continue to Inspire

A five-year-old girl who was shot in the chest in a south London shop may have lost the use of her legs.

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A 45-year-old is being treated in hospital after he was shot twice in the legs in West Belfast.

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Man shot twice in Belfast attack

Representative Gabrielle Giffords is able to keep her eyes open for up to 15 minutes at a time and can move her legs and hands, doctors said on Thursday.

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A motorist is threatened with having his legs blown off during an alleged hijacking in Belfast, the Magistrates Court hears.

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Why photographers like The Times’s Joao Silva, who lost his legs in Afghanistan this year, risk their lives for their profession.

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“I remember another time when someone was driving by and the man in the vehicle had done nothing, but the Bradley shot him anyway. I can still hear the man screaming and yelling as the car was burning. I hate to say this, but we had not eaten and were all hungry … it smelled like barbecue. After a while, we went over to the vehicle and the only thing left of the man were his legs; most of his body had been burned. The next morning we saw dogs eating his leg;, that’s the only thing that was left. I will never forget this … read more

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KABUL – For those who have escaped Afghanistan’s worst violence, some things are hard to forget: the sight of a woman’s hair entangled in the mulberry branches, her legs strewn far away in the dirt. Or the sounds they heard as they hid in an underground hole, counting the bombs to pass the time,…

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The oldest known relatives of dinosaurs were the size of a house cat, walked on four legs and left footprints in the quarries in Poland about 250 million years ago, researchers report.

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Two men are jailed for an incident in which a man lost his legs after a Jeep deliberately crushed him against a wall.

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