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Complete article can be found at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/sports/olympics/28olympics.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
A Life of Peaks and Valleys, and of Hope
By LYNN ZINSER
Published: February 28, 2006
TURIN, Italy, Feb. 27 — A month after Ralph Green was gunned down on a Brooklyn street corner in 1992, his mother mustered the strength to look ahead.
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Green competing during the Disabled Alpine Skiing Meridian Cup in Colorado in early February. He will take part in the Paralympics in Turin, Italy, in March.
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Ralph Green in front of the Roosevelt housing projects in Brooklyn, where he grew up. He was a star high school athlete when he was shot on a street corner in 1992.
Until he was shot, Green had escaped the violence that plagued his Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. He was 15 and a promising high school quarterback. After the shooting, his left leg had to be amputated and he was in a coma. |