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Even without such incentives, however, some firms have been standouts in aiding the disabled to do their jobs. Marriott International of Bethesda, Md., has long been recognized for its efforts. One compelling reason for the company's stance: chairman J.W. Marriott Jr.'s son Steve, a Marriott vice president of employment marketing, is hearing and sight impaired. But Marriott executives emphasize that the policy has deeper roots than that. "Working with all people has just become a part of our corporate culture," says Brendan Keegan, Marriott's executive vice president of human resources. "We have found that people with disabilities...
Exhibit A: A coloring book from the police in Montgomery County, Md., warns children, "You cannot tell if a stranger is dangerous by the way he or she looks. A dangerous stranger could look and act like a very nice person." The accompanying drawing is of four adults who look like the neighbors in an old Dick-and-Jane reader, among them a well-dressed elderly woman...
This selection has to rank as one of the most dismal TIME has ever made. These guys are the Humbert Humbert and Inspector Javert of U.S. politics. RICHARD E. HEGNER Columbia, Md...
...hanging any pictures of your Men of the Year in my kindergarten classroom. Shame on you! How could you relegate baseball's Mark McGwire to the (newly invented?) category of Hero of the Year? McGwire taught us all a lesson in sportsmanship and humility. ANNE M. HAGGERTY Silver Spring, Md...
That trial, being conducted by GTI-Novartis in Gaithersburg, Md., uses an ingenious technique to attack brain tumors. After re-engineering a retrovirus--an RNA virus that invades only cells that are in the process of dividing--the doctors outfitted it with a gene from the herpes virus and injected it into the brain. Because virtually the only cells that divide in the brain are tumor cells, the retroviruses infected them alone, inserting the herpes gene into their nuclei. As this gene expressed itself, it made the tumor cells sensitive to the herpes drug ganciclovir. When the drug was then...