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...minor leagues. Martin also has a rare circulatory disorder that makes it difficult for him to walk long distances. Now, that presents a problem, since tournament golf courses usually top 7,000 yards. Martin can play a round of golf, however, if he rides in a golf cart, a practice strictly prohibited by the PGA. Martin decided that the PGA needed to show a little more compassion, so he acted on the most American of impulses: he sued under the Americans with Disabilities...
...federal magistrate in Eugene, Oregon heard the groundbreaking case last month. Martin claimed that the PGA had to provide him a "reasonable accommodation" under the ADA, which is to say, it had to give him access to a cart during tournaments. The PGA claimed that this would undermine competition, since walking is an integral and challenging component of golf. To which Martin responded, look at some of the fat, lethargic members of the PGA and then tell me that walking matters in golf. To which the PGA responded, visit the first-aid trailers in July and August and count...
...expense still too great for many cash-strapped districts. "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck," says Cuban. "The capital investment in desktops makes it difficult to buy this new thing called laptops." Harvard's Martha Stone Wiske suggests that schools purchase "a rolling cart of 10 or 15 laptops," rather than one for every student, and offer them to different classes when teachers develop lessons that can incorporate the machines. That way, Wiske says, schools can both save cash and maximize the effectiveness of laptops--by making the computers subordinate to what the computers...
AWARDED. CASEY MARTIN, 25, disabled pro golfer; the right to use a golf cart during tourney play; in Eugene, Ore. Golfers argued that their strolls between holes made golf an endurance sport and that Martin's use of a cart, compensation for a circulatory disorder, was an unfair advantage. Martin is the first professional athlete to sue successfully under the Americans with Disabilities...
...Casey at the Cart An Oregon court gives Casey Martin the green light to use a cart on the tour. PGA officials are not amused, and will appeal...