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After voicing initial concerns about the potential cost, U.S. industry has shown itself more open to hiring people with disabilities--especially in the midst of the tightest labor market in memory. In 1994, the latest year for which U.S. Census Bureau statistics are available, some 3.7 million people with severe disabilities were at work, up from 2.9 million three years earlier. That said, there is still a long way to go. As the employment numbers also indicate, a large proportion of America's disabled population still has its nose pressed against the workplace window. Prejudice, lack of adequate transportation...
...reason why high-tech firms are more open to the disabled--humane considerations aside--is that the price of accommodating them, at least in some areas, is rapidly falling. Henter-Joyce Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla., software company, manufactures a program for blind and visually impaired people that has come down in price by almost half--from $1,500 to $795--since its 1988 introduction, notes president Ted Henter, who is himself blind. Called JAWS, an acronym for Job Access with Speech, the Windows-based program reads back in a synthesized voice whatever is typed into a computer. This voice...
...simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen's e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. In the past three or four years, the World Wide Web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. The spooks call it "open-source intelligence," and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. In 1995 the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi. The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions, whose clear advantage was its mastery...
...data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine. "As soon as that report runs, we'll suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we'll hear back from some of them." Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. That's where Stratfor earns its keep...