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There had never been such a sight at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of disabled people abandoned their wheelchairs and crawled up the steep stone steps on knees, elbows and backs. The climb was not really necessary. The Capitol is equipped with ramps and elevators for wheelchairs. But the point was to rally support for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would require public buildings and transportation systems to accommodate the disabled...
...welfare assistance immediately, while the present full exemption from federal taxes on individuals and companies would be phased out only gradually. About 40% of the island's 3.3 million residents now qualify for federally supported food assistance. According to Hernandez, average monthly benefits for a family of four would climb from...
...excited to do stuff with someone who knows Paris really well," Fels said, adding that she is not planning to be a typical tourist. "Maybe we'll climb the Eiffel Tower, but other than that...
...climb began in Massapequa, N.Y., where Alexander Baldwin was one of six children born to a high school English teacher and his wife. Zander, as Alec's family calls him, was a good student, a talented lacrosse and football player, a compulsive movie watcher. Acting was not supposed to be an option, but after he enrolled at George Washington University with an eye toward law school, his vision of life at the bar ate at him: "I saw everything laid out in front of me, on a conveyor belt." He transferred to New York University's acting school, and within...
...pilgrim will no longer have to make the 2 1/2-hour climb from the monastery, on the steep steps carved in rock by Byzantine monks who began the task in the 6th century. Unless better angels intervene, there is to be a cable car to whisk the pilgrim up the volcanic rock. At the upper terminus, according to one plan, he will find a restaurant, a casino (which in Egypt is not a gambling house but a nonalcoholic nightclub) and probably an asphalt walkway lighted at night to take the visitor to where Moses...