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Adrift on the Information Highway
How Kansas got 'consumer control' into the
law
The Next Question by Richard L.
McMullen.
Visions from Sutured Seams by Dan
Weinrich.
Removing the nursing home stranglehold
An Abstract Artist's Dream by Robert
Mauro
Alzheimer's by J. Lynn Hughes
D.R. Nation
ARTICLES
One Man's Story of Discrimination
AT&T;, oft-praised for disability savvy, showed a different side to computer analyst Dean Olson.
Sally Rosenthal learns what "special" means.
The true helping professionals, says Bill Bolt.
POEM
Visiting Robert Frost's Farm In Franconia
by Margaret Robison.
FICTION
Max & His Electronic PCA
by Robert Mauro.
AND ...
From the Editor
Hire the handicapped -- & fire 'em
Freakishness, invisible disabilities, Not Dead Yet.
Dying telethon, travelling Access Board, more ...
Barbara Waxman Fiduccia on women & suicide.
Peggy Hecker chose to use a nurse, and tells why.
"Magoo" is just one example.
If Hollywood Did Disability ... Cartoon by Sharon Wachsler
ARTICLES
Gee, you don't look handicapped!
Megan Jones explains why she uses a white cane to tell people that she's
deaf.
Part 2 in our look at how activists are working to remove the
nursing-home stranglehold.
They're baaaccckkk ... or should we say, we're
baaaccckkk? Robert Mauro ponders the freak life.
Frequent updates on the assisted-suicide and right-to-die issue
and other breaking disability-rights news.
POEMS
Entropy and Angels and Range
of Motion, a posthumous tribute to poet Susan McBride.
AND ...
Gawking and accommodation
A few words from the Editors.
FDR, suicide, invisible disabilities, corrections ...
Tenure battles; activists question UCPA; Gingrich.
Cartoons, with an introduction and excerpt.
You can say that again! But we wish you wouldn't ...
Cheryl Marie Wade: August 1 is gonna be rough.
ARTICLES
FDR: rolling in his grave???
The drive to put Roosevelt in a wheelchair says more about disability pride
than Roosevelt.
Anybody on Medicaid can get into a nursing home; but not get
in-home help. Why's that?
Back-and-forth squabbling on the Internet about
"physician-induced death." Everybody's got something to say about it,
seems like.
POEMS
Pole Fishing by Edward C. Lynskey.
AND ...
Talk, talk, talk ...
A word or two from the Editors.
Awareness days, parking, activism, more ...
911 victory under wraps; condo fights ramp, Tampa fights
parking, an Oscar, an admission.
Mary Jane Owen tells about the 504 sit-in.
Cass Irvin talks about the way we see
attendants.
ARTICLES
Living Like a Cripple
What with all the suicide talk, we thought we'd see what life was
like. Hard to tell, says Bill Bolt.
Celia Henderson and Sally Rosenthal tell about some problems we're all
likely to face.Awareness Day try-on-a-disability gimmicks gotta go, says
Valerie Brew-Parrish. She tells why.
Yeah, nondisabled folks misuse it. That's their problem,
writes Chet Mottershead.
POEMS
'Algae,' 'Mute'
Poems by Raymond Luczak
FICTION
Waltzing With Matilda
By Paul Merrigan
AND ...
Beyond 'Right to Die'
A word or two from the Editors.
Reeve, euthanasia, SSI.
Cheryl Marie Wade says the 'right to die with dignity' makes
her say 'uh oh!'
ARTICLES
Give Me Dignity or Give Me Death
Pat Williams has been doing some Reeve watching and we get the
results of all the thinking.
David Mitchell, who watched Reeve at the Democratic Convention,
realizes that what was happening was much bigger than one man.
Elizabeth L. Holzemer knows firsthand how we view mental
illness.
Cass Irvin recalls what "cure" meant to her at Warm Springs.
From her book "The Gimp Mystique."
From Kenny Fries' forthcoming book, "Body, Remember: A
Memoir."
POEMS
AND ...
We're back ... and we're new!
Welcome to Ragged Edge magazine, successor to The Disability
Rag & Resource.
Hunchbacklash gets lots of letters.
Disney World gets sued. Stadiums get sued. ADAPT gets Gingrich
on paper and more.
Mary Jane Owen says even paranoid folks have enemies, and we
oughta be watching our backs with this Congress.
The Cure Doctors have a new specialty. Cartoon by Win
Newburg.
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