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...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 breached the state's law on equal opportunities - and that disabled people had been persecuted during the Holocaust. A German court rejected the suit, arguing that the changes would injure "the nature of the artistic conception." Europe's disabled people complain that their concerns about access have been dismissed for too long. "We simply cannot be refused access to places because of disabilities," Michel says. Many like her are no longer willing to accept...
...draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state government web site last week-to determine how to deploy money according to the potential death toll and economic impact of various attacks on likely targets. If resources are spread too thin, they are useless, says Chertoff: "One hazmat suit in every town does nobody any good." Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas has a different take. "If we are just safe in the urban areas and not in the heartland then America is not safe," he says. If Chertoff doesn't "pay close attention to the desires of Congress," Pryor warns...
Although Stone feels personally compelled to pursue her humanitarian work and to use her celebrity status to help her in those efforts, she does not believe that other public figures should necessarily follow suit. When asked if she believes celebrity artists have a social imperative to help others, Stone replied “absolutely not. I don’t think artists have an imperative to do anything…They should be free to make...
...Canter and Siegel refused to give ground. They declared the experiment "a tremendous success," claiming to have generated $100,000 in new business. They threatened to sue Internet Direct for cutting them off from even more business (although the suit never materialized). And they gave an unrepentant interview to the New York Times. "We will definitely advertise on the Internet again," they promised...
...bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces a $25,000 legal bill that, because he was working on his behalf, not his employer's, he must pay out of his own pocket. It was a pointed reminder to reporters -- and would-be reporters on the Internet -- that the laws of libel don't stop...