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Norma Westfield eases her wheelchair out of the elevator of her apartment, through the front door and to the Handi-Van waiting in front of her building. It is a vehicle with hydraulic lifts that the city of Fond du Lac offers to disabled residents. Westfield, 43, who has used a wheelchair since she was stricken with polio as a child, relies on the Handi-Van to reach her doctor's office and a local hospital where she does volunteer work. She is not strong enough to push herself to the bus stop a block away, and during the winter...
...Fond du Lac, a town of 40,000 curled along the shores of Lake Winnebago, lifts will boost the price tag on each new bus $15,000. Operating and maintenance expenses will tack on an additional $5,000 each year. City-council members worry about finding enough money to both continue the Handi-Van service and install lifts on the city's fleet of twelve buses, half of which are due to be replaced this year...
Disabled-rights groups lobbied hard to defeat an amendment to the bill that would have exempted transit systems in cities of fewer than 200,000. They argued that disabled people should not be segregated in special buses or vans. But Stan Kocos, chairman of Disabled Advocates of Fond du Lac, admits that his group was torn between support for the new law and the Handi-Van. Says Kocos: "We want lifts on buses, and we want the alternative service. But we'd hate to see a taxpayer backlash...
...fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for about $1. One section of the Dome has been turned into a really excellent fish restaurant (Michelin gives it one star), with...
...wind resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with a Cray supercomputer. Tests proved the wheels are faster and more durable than traditional ones...