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...along paths with gradients of up to 25%; many wheelchair users can't navigate the corners, and they and other disabled people find the slopes too steep. "I want to be able to remember - without barriers - my Jewish ancestors who were murdered in a concentration camp," says wheelchair user Sigrid Arnade, 48. "I don't want to be annoyed by barriers that are again being put up for disadvantaged groups in the 21st century, barriers that bar access to me." A disabled-rights group sued Berlin's Department for City Development to demand revisions, on the basis that the design...
...Angeles chiropractor Jim Beverlin, 72, fell in love twice in 1987--first with Costa Rica, which has become his adopted homeland, then with one of its citizens, Sigrid Rocio, who became his wife. Beverlin is not alone in his love of Costa Rica and its people. The spectacular landscape and the embracing warmth of the literate, cosmopolitan populace have captured the hearts of an estimated 50,000 other American retirees who have made this Central American country their home...
...Sigrid Nunez's much praised first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God, the protagonist, a daughter of joyless immigrant parents, leaves her pained life in New York City to teach English in China. Never having experienced a sense of emotional belonging, she now chooses a life that will make her perpetual sense of alienation all the more urgent...
...proposing that the government get out of funding any specific programs, however, or if cuts are not going to be proportionate among all recipients of federal funds, that must be fully disclosed to the public for comment, not just left to TV sound bites and platitudes by politicians. Sigrid E. Olson Albuquerque, New Mexico...
...almost literally true. Walls and walls of their house are nothing but glass, and readers who expect something to shatter will not be disappointed. But the source and degree of the destruction are entirely unanticipated. Glynnis finds a canceled check for $1,000 that Ian had made out to Sigrid Hunt, a willowy young woman whom Glynnis had once taken up socially and then dropped. Ian's explanation happens to be factual: Sigrid had phoned him in distress and in need of an abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could and a check...