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It gives me the opportunity to stop. I love the rhythm of walking. Of course, walking as the 'journey of life' is a really old metaphor, one whose bells I don't want to be ringing.

Mr. Paulsen, a quadriplegic who lives in Phoenix, Ariz., has four tiny electrodes implanted along his spine that can tell the muscles in his legs to move in the rhythm of walking.