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Marriott project manager Preston Joyce, 36, who lost his right arm in a motorcycle accident at age 18 and wears a prosthesis, bolsters Keegan's assertions. Hired by the company in 1984, he is a technology specialist in the human resources department. He was one of the first in the company to get a computer with all the control keys on one side, plus small touches like a cubicle that organizes his equipment and supplies on his left side. "I'm looked at as an individual who does his job well, not as someone who is missing an arm," Joyce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Able To Work | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...Neese, who owns a personnel agency with a staff of 14 in Oklahoma City, makes an effort to work with local training institutes in her area to help place people with disabilities in jobs. Neese's personal motivation: her granddaughter Emily, 4, does not have a fully developed left arm. "I know my granddaughter will grow up to have a brilliant mind and a willing spirit," Neese says. "But what kinds of opportunities will she find available out there? I want to set an example in my own company." For example, Neese has placed people who use wheelchairs in computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Able To Work | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...sheer dimensions of the brutalization in Freetown in the past few weeks have been hard even for resolute aid workers to withstand. The images that flash by them are otherworldly, they say. Marie de la Soudiere, who heads the International Rescue Committee's Children in Armed Conflict Unit, is still haunted by the shy six-year-old girl outside Freetown who raised the stump of her arm and asked, "Will my fingers grow back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart Of Darkness | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...just got my arm on the rebound and knocked it away," Prestifilippo said. "Then they guys turned it up ice and gotthe goal. It was the turning point of the game...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Upsets No. 6 B.C. | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

When the first vote came, Clinton was closeted with the Rev. Tony Campolo, one of the pastors who have been offering him spiritual guidance this year. And when he emerged from the Oval Office, Hillary had her arm around her husband's as the two of them, along with the Vice President, Gephardt and chief of staff John Podesta, made their way to the Rose Garden, a bare magnolia tree behind them, a darkening gray sky above. Not a single speaker there, not even the President, uttered the word impeachment. Instead, Clinton vowed, with steel in his jaw, to serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Burning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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