Word: civilizations
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...sort, what does it mean to be disabled? In a trio of decisions on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, as far as the Americans With Disabilities Act is concerned, disability does not mean poor eyesight or high blood pressure. The ADA, one of the nation?s major civil rights measures, bans discrimination by employers against handicapped workers. Because of its broad language -- a disability is any condition that limits a major life activity -- the statute has been generously interpreted over the years by the Supreme Court. But on Tuesday the Justices decided that there are limits...
...mystery of a lost child, a story as brutal and romantic as anything by Faulkner. CBS is turning the book into a mini-series, but there are enough remarkable tales here for 10. A moving storyteller, Wiencek largely resists the temptation to moralize. Not since Mary Chesnut's Civil War has nonfiction about the South been as compelling as fiction...
...lodging for a family of four ain't cheap), but overplanning can backfire. "Before you worry about any of the logistics, you need to remember that this is special time with your kids," says Candyce Stapen, author of the Great Family Vacations series. "It's not about seeing every Civil War battlefield; it's about being together as a family...
...soccer player in the world." He was quickly legend. By the next season, he was the top scorer in his league. As the Times of London would later say, "How do you spell Pele? G-O-D." He has been known to stop war: both sides in Nigeria's civil war called a 48-hour cease-fire in 1967 so Pele could play an exhibition match in the capital of Lagos...
...Sakharov abandoned his cocooned life as his country's leading physicist to risk everything in battle against the two great threats to civilization in the second half of this century: nuclear war and communist dictatorship. In the dark, bitter depths of the cold war, Sakharov's voice rang out. "A miracle occurred," Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "when Andrei Sakharov emerged in the Soviet state, among the swarms of corrupt, venal, unprincipled intelligentsia." By the time of his death in 1989, this humble physicist had influenced the spread of democratic ideals throughout the communist world. His moral challenge to tyranny, his faith...