Word: felted
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...human-resources manager. According to the communications giant, an estimated 385 employees out of a total of 51,000 have designated themselves as having a disability. The company tries to work with people where and when they need it, Hastings adds. "The company gave me an opportunity when I felt I didn't have any options," says Deanne Dirksen, 24, a department assistant based in Louisville, Ky., who is legally blind from multiple sclerosis. To enable her to do her job, Sprint supplied Dirksen with a computer-software program called ZoomText that magnifies the print on her computer screen...
...always felt [final clubs] had lots ofpotential to combine social life and more seriousminded things like the Signet does," he said. Eppsadded that in the past the clubs were noted for"interesting theatricals and library collections...
...correspondent Margot Hornblower. California, which has the longest waiting list with some 400,000 names on it, will get the most help, with 56 new INS jobs created. "Many people have lived here for decades," says Hornblower. "And they were content to live here without being naturalized until they felt threatened by laws such as Proposition 187, which affected their health care." She points out, however, that the new push to integrate existing residents into the American mainstream "doesn't change the efforts of the Clinton administration to crack down on illegal immigration." For prospective Americans outside the country...
...professors, who were often forced to read theses that they felt were uninspired, the change is welcome...
...hate spam e-mail. Consider the Chinese authorities. On Wednesday, a Chinese court convicted a software entrepreneur of subversion -- and packed him off to jail for two years -- for giving the e-mail addresses of 30,000 Chinese computer users to a publication called VIP Reference. Chinese authorities felt the need to intervene because VIP Reference is a pro-democracy journal published on the Internet by Chinese dissidents in the U.S. "The Chinese response was not surprising" says TIME senior foreign correspondent Johanna McGeary. "The authorities have long realized that knowledge is power and dangerous for them." The cyberspace angle...