Word: deaf
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...place in New York; this search opens up her own life and all of New York for the reader's eye. Like Cantwell, readers finds themselves wanting to know what makes New York what it is "Maybe it's different if you were born here. Maybe then you are deaf to the buzzing and the beating of wings. But I had come from out of town, and to me New York was a hive. You could not just live here. You had to be somebody, do something it didn't matter what. You were not part of the city unless...
...communications networks has made a once daunting world more navigable. Curb ramps, lift-equipped buses and extrawide rest-room stalls for wheelchair users are now as common a feature of the American landscape as are closed-captioned TV titles. A phone relay system called Text Telephone enables the deaf to order pizza. "There's a guy in Georgia who has a job for the first time because his bus has a lift, and a woman in Kentucky who's seen her brother play baseball for the first time because the stadium was made wheelchair accessible," says Speed Davis, acting executive...
Moreover, the very concept of "disability" has become clouded. While few would dispute that those who are blind, deaf or in wheelchairs have special needs, the law's vague definition of a disability as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities" has provoked an outcropping of frivolous lawsuits. In Indiana a customer filed a complaint against a restaurant because a waiter refused to carve the meat for the man's ailing mother. A Louisiana television anchorwoman sued for time off to receive fertility treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown...
...proposal fell on deaf ears in Washington, in part because it seemed to be nothing new, in part because its requirement for lifting sanctions up front seemed to require blind faith. "We need an insurance policy in case Milosevic cannot control the Bosnian Serbs," says a senior Administration official. "Milosevic, for his part, is scared to death of what he considers the feckless American political process. He says, 'What happens some day when [what he calls] the German-Muslim lobby on Capitol Hill says let's reimpose sanctions?' Milosevic is dug in on reimposition, and so are we." Milosevic wants...
...Cupboard succeeds by moving kids' entertainment away from kick-boxing superheroes. It's the kind of movie a parent would love to take their kids to, because they wouldn't be in danger of getting karate-chopped from the back seat during the car-ride home, or of going deaf from their kids screaming Disney tunes for the next six months. It was a great film idea. Too bad it didn...