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...puncture the stifling isolation of the disabled and draw them into the mainstream of civic life. Noble in design but threadbare on specific guidelines that spell out what improvements are required in places as varied as public courthouses, private business offices and local bowling alleys, the ADA has proved a mixed blessing for the disabled...
...first time because his bus has a lift, and a woman in Kentucky who's seen her brother play baseball for the first time because the stadium was made wheelchair accessible," says Speed Davis, acting executive director of the National Council on Disability. "The ADA has got people's attention...
...public resistance when they want to spend money to benefit a relative few. "That's taking time and resources that could have been used in a lot of other ways," says Wally Douthwaite, city manager of Des Plaines, Illinois, which spent $2 million to improve sidewalks and curbs. "The ADA is a pain in the butt...
...Then came Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941," reads the Fiftieth Reunion Book. "The next day a mass meeting was held in Agassiz House. [Radcliffe's President Ada Louise Comstock advised, it is our] `immediate duty to continue our college work in order to prepare ourselves for the organization of a peaceful world...
...similar case in Texas, where an HIV-infected man got $100,000 from a dentist in an out of court settlement. "It's an uncertain area of the law," says TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen, who notes that while the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the ADA covers victims of some diseases, it has not issued any decisions on whether the law applies to AIDS patients. "This is definitely a landmark case...