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This week's KPR Presents features former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser, from a reading sponsored by the University of Kansas Libraries. We'll also hear the collaborative efforts of Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt, in a reading performed at the Lawrence Public Library.


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Workout On Wheels   Date: January 14, 2009
   It’s hard enough to get started on a physical fitness routine. Imagine how difficult it is for the nearly three million Americans who use wheelchairs. Researchers at the University of Kansas are now developing a program to help those people get the exercise they need. Health Reporter Bryan Thompson has more as part of our series, “Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change”.

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   For more information about Project Workout On Wheels visit our website at kpr.ku.edu. Just click on the “Kansas Health” link. That’s kpr.ku.edu.

   Funding for the health series is provided by the Sunflower Foundation of Topeka and the Kansas Health Foundation of Wichita.
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Project Workout On Wheels homepage
Surgeon General's Report On Physical Activity & Health
Surgeon General's Call To Action
Wheelchair Obstacle Course Study

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