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Technology casts disability in a different light

By Celeste Biever

23 May 2007

THE celebrity magazine People has ranked fashion model and actress Aimee Mullins among the world’s 50 most beautiful people. She is president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, whose goal is to advance the lives of girls and women through sport and physical activity, and is herself a record-breaking athlete. Mullins is also a double amputee, having lost both her legs below the knee as a child.

She now has new legs, just not of the traditional type. “People say I have no legs, but in fact I have 10,” Mullins says. The pair she uses to race in are made…

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