She also enjoys the simple pleasures in life, like walking her miniature dachshund Josh and, of course, shoe shopping.

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The walks prompted vivid memories which he included in his blog Walking on Planet C which is a frank and often uncomfortable account of life in the shadow of a potentially fatal illness.

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It begins with his near-fatal car crash in 1999 on a fishing trip in the outback of Australia, an event that crippled his walking for the rest of his life, and then flashes back to his upbringing in a prominent Sydney family, which educated him at Jesuit schools and sharpened his antiauthoritarian edge.

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Walking is an important indicator of both disability and quality of life in people with Parkinson's, they said.

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Suddenly springing to life in the 79th minute, he moved from dejected walking pace to full flight in two paces, and leapt across a defender to score a brilliant winning goal.

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Maybe even more so because how many times have I heard visiting designers from New York and Paris say that walking around in Hong Kong and Tokyo is like seeing the pages of Vogue come to life.

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The BBC has said it would be interested in an entertainment complex showing life-size exhibits from productions like EastEnders and Walking With Dinosaurs.

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Petersburg, Russia, spent her early years in a Russian orphanage, walking on her hands because she had no wheelchair -- but her life improved dramatically after she was adopted and brought to the United States by her new family.

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