Word: accessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After years of renovations, most classroom spaces are now accessible in some form to disabled students, but many of the Houses and first-year dorms have much more limited degrees of access...
...MAAB codes dictate that doors must be wide enough for wheelchairs, in addition to detailing things like the height of bathroom urinals and the positioning of hand railings. They also mandate that people with disabilities be able to use the primary entrance to a building and be able to access all its floors...
...College admits this solution is not perfect. First-years with mobility impairments who can access their own rooms cannot necessarily visit their friends. And the accessible dorms have their limitations. Despite its overall accessibility, Thayer, for example, lacks a common room...
...itself, for example, is technically accessible. But to get in, Nathans says, students must navigate a tricky ramp and then, once inside have access only to the rooms on the first floor...
...toll among black Americans, particularly black men, than among whites. In part that's because 34% of black men in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, compared with 28% of white men. (Black women tend to smoke less than white women.) It also has to do with differences in income and access to medical care. But there has always been a lingering suspicion that some of the gap might be due to either overt or subconscious discrimination. A study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine appears to bolster that disturbing conclusion...