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...disabled person knows, it is often the small gesture that can make an inhospitable world seem welcoming. After a sunglasses vendor in Palatine, Illinois, advertised her sign-language skills, people with hearing impairments flocked to her stand to discuss frame shapes and lens tints. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, shelves and pulley systems enable wheelchair users to inspect a special exhibit. In the rest rooms there, a cheap innovation safeguards the disabled from the nasty scaldings their legs routinely endure in public places: the hot-water pipes beneath the sinks are wrapped with insulation. When a business takes the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBLE AIMS, MIXED RESULTS | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...number of clauses in the original measure were left unchanged. Every tobacco vendor will be required to obtain a tobacco sales permit from the city. Vendors will also be required to demand proof of age, with photo...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: City Council Weakens Tough Anti-Smoking Ordinance | 5/24/1995 | See Source »

...Right after this injury happened, I ordered acomplete check to make sure all the safetyswitches on the movable stacks were workingproperly," he said yesterday. "We then contactedthe vendor of the stacks, and set a meeting forthis Thursday to discuss additional safetydevices...

Author: By Rachel C. Telegen, | Title: Prof.'s Arm Broken in Stacks | 5/2/1995 | See Source »

...woman friend, a cyclingrace director who finally broke her pattern of diddling mountain bikers, discovered that while a popcorn vendor might not look as hot in Lycra, he will ride the extra mile with energy to spare. Plus, he has snacks when you're finished...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Poetry and Prose | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...this possibility. Without cash and without a way to easily transfer material goods, beggars would have no good reason to persist in their appeals in the streets. Passers-by could only offer sympathy ("Brother, can you spare a smile...), or perhaps a hot-dog purchased electronically from a nearby vendor. The newspapers sold by homeless people would probably have sufficient capital to sell electronically through some central sidewalk sites, but even that form of charity would be reduced...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Begging in the Age of Credit | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

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