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Usage examples of amputees.

Every day the outcasts were in the streets, women with junk carts, a man dragging a mattress, ordinary drunks slipping in from the dock areas, from construction craters near the Hudson, people without shoes, amputees and freaks, men splitting off from groups sleeping in fish crates under the highway and limping down past the slips and lanes, the helicopter pad, onto Broad Street, living rags.

Most amputees feel that anything substantially interfering with this mass circulatory system will be disastrous.

Terrorist organizations often supplied the convicted amputees among their members with realistic computerized prosthesesbut such mechanical devices could not pass spaceport inspections or other security checks.

Normally amputees used kinaware prosthetics, but she wanted him whole again, human.