Tinkerer uses electric motor to keep his heart healthy

Monday, May 13, 2002

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Thinking back, Carl Hicks wonders if he planned "to do myself in" the day he defied doctors' orders and pulled the old lawn mower out of his backyard shed.

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