For months, the public knew of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s recovery only through other people. Her astronaut husband. Her protective chief of staff. The army of doctors and specialists who have shepherded her through multiple surgeries and day after day of grueling physical therapy. But now it is Giffords herself offering the most convincing evidence yet of a remarkable rehabilitation, seven months after she was shot in the head by a would-be assassin who killed six bystanders and injured more than a dozen others. Read full article >>