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Even with such promising new services and techniques, the battle to integrate the disabled more thoroughly into regular working life is far from over. Formidable obstacles remain. In the U.S., one of the most difficult issues involves health care. "What happens if you get a job that doesn't have health insurance?" asks EEOC Commissioner Miller. "You lose your Medicare benefits, which you greatly need once you get that job, and then you can't purchase a separate health plan because of a pre-existing condition." The answer, he feels, is possibly to amend the Medicare and Medicaid system regarding...
...raise European unemployment do not recognize the important labor-market differences between Europe and the U.S. When local employment declines, Americans move to areas where jobs are more plentiful; that is unthinkable in a Europe divided by linguistic and cultural barriers. And American wage flexibility allows employment to remain much more stable when the availability of local jobs declines...
...even those determined to remain passive observers while their kids labor over essays and science-fair projects can find themselves getting sucked in. "It's something I never wanted to do. I hated doing homework when I was a kid," says Lizanne Merrill, a New York City artist whose daughter Gracie is in second grade. But Gracie often trudges home with elaborate assignments that all but demand Merrill's involvement. A research paper assigned to be done over Christmas vacation required Gracie, 8, to do some fieldwork on sea turtles at the American Museum of Natural History. Mom went along...
True, the fact that it was the lead story helped make such shootings more likely in the future. And two other school rampages--in Jonesboro, Ark., and Springfield, Ore.--did occur. Even so, the chances of such a tragedy visiting your neighborhood remain minuscule. You'll know it's time to worry when your newspaper stops covering school massacres that happen outside your region...
SLIP OF THE PEN The Senate gift shop had better stock up on these. The pens used to sign the pledge that Senators would remain impartial during the trial had a misprint. Gillette has offered to replace the pens but so far has only received requests for more...