Armless student teaches lesson in fortitude on way to law school

Seriously injured as a child, he became a top student after learning to write with his feet

It was already standing room only on a Saturday afternoon in a meeting room designed for 100 people on the sixth floor of a teaching building at Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu, Sichuan province. But more people kept coming.

Students and parents crowded the room to hear Peng Chao, an armless 20-year-old who uses his feet to write. He scored a respectable 603 points in the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, in June.