Archive for category: Disability
- Lorraine Sommerfeld: Blind teen can fix cars but can’t read article about him (2011.06.16)
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Newsflash, Lorraine Sommerfeld: A teen who can fix cars does not need sighted help to read a newspaper
- ‑lympic (2010.07.27)
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At the Olympic and Paralympic presser for London 2012, I was the only writer interested in the Paralympics. Spoiler alert: Brian and Robin McKeever are their secret weapon
- Clash of worlds (2010.07.11)
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Carl Burnett is a Paralympic alpine skiier and a lexicographer with a degree in linguistics. My kinda guy
- Gay producers make the lame walk (2010.05.24)
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When gays on TV act the way Artie on Glee does, we call the show homophobic
- Stoked on Mandeville (2010.05.20)
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I’m the guy who really likes the new London 2010 mascots, Mandeville and Wenlock. Yes, I’m the one!
- Half-blind musclebear hauls in medals (2009.11.14)
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Steven Holcomb had no trouble driving a bobsleigh while half-blind. So what’s everybody else’s problem?
- Surprising disability data (2008.08.07)
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Three-quarters of deaf people don’t have caption decoders? What?
- Thrice-simulated blindness (2007.03.13)
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Three guys! With three guide dogs!