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...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...
...said, "Some of these women are well intentioned, but the bulk of them are power-hungry witches," someone needs to tell him that using witch as a derogatory term for women perceived as troublemakers by the Catholic Church went out of vogue a long time ago. CHRISTINE ALLAMANNO St. Petersburg...
Starovoitova's killing, on the staircase of her St. Petersburg apartment, appeared to be a professional piece of work. The killers tracked her from Moscow, and were not fooled by a last-minute change of her travel plans. Security sources say the hit bore the marks of the special services, Russia's blanket term for the security police and intelligence bodies. The sources speculate that the killers, reportedly a man and a woman, were either moonlighting security police or former operatives now working for the underworld...
...speaker Gennadi Seleznev, a communist, had ordered it. Some communists retorted that Starovoitova's allies had killed her to create a martyr. A leading communist Deputy accused businessman Boris Berezovsky of ordering the hit. Calmer heads suggested that the murder was connected to a dirty election campaign in St. Petersburg...
Starovoitova's killers are in little danger of being brought to justice. None of the well-planned murders of prominent people--such as St. Petersburg's deputy mayor, who was shot down by snipers in 1997--has been solved. But the planned political violence is having an effect. Calls are growing for the government to invoke emergency powers. Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov has rejected such demands, but he is under pressure to do something. What he can achieve with a system that is riddled with corruption, however, is open to question...