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Retired farmer James Law ('14) of Stuart, Iowa, sat in his wheelchair relishing the stories of playing on an undefeated football team and knowing the greatest school legend of all time: sprinter Chuck Hoyt ('14). Hoyt learned to run chasing ponies on his farm. "He was all legs," chuckled Law. Some legs. Hoyt took his first train ride when he was 14, to the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, swept the 100-m and 220-m dashes. He was asked to be on the 1912 Olympic team, but his widowed mother needed him home. Besides, she insisted...
...vacations." She also disputes the image of Farrow as an Earth-Mother Teresa. Early this year, Aronson says, Mia journeyed to Vietnam to adopt a boy, and she "dragged Satchel along -- he wasn't even four -- exposing him to illnesses and disease." The adoptee was using a wheelchair. When Mia returned, says Aronson, she took the boy to a doctor and learned he might also be slightly retarded. "That was not a handicap that suited her, so she pawned him off on another family. She gave him back to the woman who had arranged the adoption...
...origins and the end of the universe. His millions of readers may not have fully comprehended his ideas, but all of us did come to understand Hawking as a brave and inspiring figure. Stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), he is completely immobilized, uses a wheelchair and can speak only by punching letters and words into a voice-synthesizing computer. His achievements in the face of this handicap have greatly enhanced his appeal and his celebrity, even among those who haven't tried to read his book...
Under the act, employers are forbidden to discriminate in hiring, promotions and firing. They are also compelled, if it is not too burdensome, to offer "reasonable accommodations" -- things like a ramp for a wheelchair or a sound amplifier on a phone -- to people with disabilities. The fuzziness of that language has prompted many of the 264,000 employers covered by the act to seek advice about their new obligations, especially since they face stiff financial penalties if they violate its provisions. Says Bobby Silverstein of the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy: "Companies are sending human- resources employees to seminars...
...March, John Kingery, an 82-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease, was found abandoned in his wheelchair at an Idaho dog-racing track. Last week his daughter Sue Gifford, 40, was charged with kidnapping him from his Oregon nursing home and dumping him in Idaho. Kingery's case drew national attention to the phenomenon of "grandpa dumping": stressed-out adult children abandoning their ailing parents. Kingery is now in Kentucky being taken care of by relatives...