Topic “skydiver”

By Jon Waterhouse (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

ATLANTA — A broken neck, a broken back and a laundry list of other injuries led doctors to believe that 27-year-old Nicole Smith of Atlanta would never walk again.

Those same physicians need simply to look to the sky and see a woman who’s literally risen above the bleak prognosis. Smith, who has recovered from a battered body and bruised...