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COMMENTS: Her Legs are Too Heavy
CBS sent Celia Hatton back to Chengdu, where she had covered Sichuan's killer earthquake six months ago. She revisited He Chuan Tao, the chemist who had both legs amputated after being pulled from rubble. She is one of 50,000 newly disabled amputees in the province, which suffered a death toll of 80,000. "Tao is literally at a standstill. Her doctors say her government-issued prosthetic legs are too heavy for her and her poor farming family cannot afford lightweight ones." Tao told Hatton: "I do not want to use a wheelchair my whole life."
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