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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 An 84-year-old American sailor who was making his sixth attempt at rounding Cape Horn, one of sailing's most difficult feats, arrived in Chile Monday after he was rescued far at sea by the Chilean navy.
Monday, December 5, 2011 84-year-old Lenore Zimmerman says TSA agents demanded she be strip searched at New York's JFK Airport, even though she was in a wheelchair with a walker. The TSA says no strip search happened.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 
Joshua Trujillo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle photographer Joshua Trujillo captured what may become the defining image of this week of Occupy unrest — an elderly woman being led away from the mayhem, her face covered with pepper spray. A pregnant woman and a priest were also hit with pepper spray during a march on Tuesday night. You see more photos of the confrontation at SeattlePI.com. (More photos here as well.)
The Seattle branch of the Occupy movement, which has been camped out near Seattle Central Community College, held the march in support of the New York camp, which faced a day long eviction battle with the city yesterday. On Monday, Occupy Oakland was the scene of another attempt by police to drive campers out of a city park. There were reports that both Occupy San Francisco and Occupy Cal (on the Berkeley campus of the University of California) are being raided on Wednesday morning. The week of police crackdown comes amid reports that the federal government and is coordinating with multiple on legal strategies that can shut down the Occupy protests.
The woman in the picture is not just any elderly woman, however, as she is well known to Seattle residents. Dorli Rainey is a former school teacher who has been active in local politics since the 1960s. In 2009, she ran for mayor, but eventually dropped out by saying, "I am old and should learn to be old, stay home, watch TV and sit still." We guess she didn't learn.
Rainey emailed The Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper, to say she stopped by the march to see what was happening when her group got pinned in by police and nearly trampled in the chaos.
84-Year-Old, Occupy, Pepper-Sprayed, becomes, face, of, seattle, the, woman Tuesday, February 15, 2011 84-year-old Henry Morello describes his story of survival after being stranded for five days in the Arizona high desert. Hikers found Morello on Saturday, and he is recovering in a local hospital.
