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Farmer, who also received the e-mail from AEO, was born with Klippel Trenaunay Weber Syndrome and wears a prosthesis on his left leg. But he said he would be capable of evacuating in the case of an emergency...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College's Exit Plan Debated | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...revelation of the show, curated by Bruce James, is that artists like Gleeson, James Cant and Robert Klippel cut to the heart of European Surrealism, rubbing shoulders with Breton and Joan Mir? in Paris, and exhibiting with Roland Penrose and Man Ray in London. "Surrealism was not nationalistic, it was an international movement," says James. "In fact it was rampantly global in its ambitions. The term revolution was entirely justified because these artists really wanted to change the world." A decade since the National Gallery of Australia's "Surrealism: Revolution by Night" reunited the Antipodeans with their contemporaries overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Kind of Dreaming | 6/22/2004 | See Source »

...thin bones above Tut's eye sockets may be the kind of fractures that can occur when the head strikes the ground during a backward fall and the brain snaps forward. What's more, the vertebrae in Tut's neck were fused--a sign of a musculoskeletal malformation called Klippel-Feil syndrome. People with Klippel-Feil cannot turn their heads without moving the entire torso, an infirmity that's impossible to hide and makes the sufferer highly vulnerable to injury from a fall--or a push. "It was like having a bowling ball on top of a pool cue," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Who Killed King Tut? | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...Martin, as you probably know by now, is afflicted with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome, a degenerative disorder than causes his veins to rupture and fill the cavities around his tibia with blood. He may eventually face amputation. In the meantime he wants to play on the PGA Tour, his way. And never mind the principle of the thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casey Martin | 6/1/2001 | See Source »

Delicate Operator. In Milwaukee, when Patrolman William Klippel slipped up behind a burglar and murmured "stick 'em up," the burglar gasped and fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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