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...help. For Erik, the key was acceptance--not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build systems that allowed him to excel without it. "It's tragic--I know blind people who like to pass themselves off as being able to see," Erik says. "What's the point of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...realized I could take sighted people and slam them into the mat," he says. Grappling was a sport where feel and touch mattered more than sight: if he could sense where his opponent had his weight or how to shift his own body to gain better leverage, he could excel using his natural upper-body strength. As a high school senior he went all the way to the National Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...help. For Erik, the key was acceptance?not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build systems that allowed him to excel without it. "It's tragic?I know blind people who like to pass themselves off as being able to see," Erik says. "What's the point of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...realized I could take sighted people and slam them into the mat," he says. Grappling was a sport where feel and touch mattered more than sight: if he could sense where his opponent had his weight or how to shift his own body to gain better leverage, he could excel using his natural upper-body strength. As a high school senior he went all the way to the National Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

With European economies becoming more competitive, U.S.-trained lawyers are also in high demand there. "American laws and business structures--from antitrust to corporate law to securities law--are attuned to competitive product markets," says Harvard law professor Mark Roe. His Harvard colleague William Alford says U.S. law schools excel at "teaching problem solving," which makes their graduates broadly useful within corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Law Becomes The Global Standard | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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