Health News from Medical News Today:
IBC received one of the top corporate team awards from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) after mobilizing a team of nearly 400 walkers who raised $36,000 through donations and its corporate matching gift program for the (Read More)
Huffington Post:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man he probably wouldn't be able to get up from his recliner if they put him (Read More)
Workplace Prof Blog:
The EEOC is holding listening sessions on its proposed rules interpreting the ADA Amendments Act. BNA's Daily Labor Report (subscription required) has a story on the first session. As is no surprise, disability groups are hap (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Jeff GordinerThe Poetry FoundationIn Port Angeles, Washington, it was Tess Gallagher.I had stopped for a lunch of yogurt and fresh figs on the way to the coast, and, as so often happens, I wound up wandering into a local book (Read More)
Workplace Prof Blog:
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law Volume 18, Number 1 Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century: A New Horizon? Conference Panels: What the ADA Amendments and Higher Education A (Read More)
Kotaku:
GameSpot reports that a man has sued Sony, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment of America, contending the company violates the Americans with Disabilities Act for not making its virtual worlds more easil (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
The November issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association features a commentary by James O. Hill, an honorary ADA member, professor of pediatrics and medicine and director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the (Read More)
ABA Journal Top Stories:
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against a Colorado attorney for allegedly barring a woman from giving a deposition in his law office because she was accompa (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Real Estate:
For 23 years, Julie Gore has heated her Ada, Ohio, home with a wood-burning stove. When the old one wore out, she didn't hesitate to buy another for her family room.
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MSNBC:
Oct. 21: “Law & Order: SVU” star Stephanie March talks with the TODAY hosts about her return to the hit show as ADA Alexandra Cabot. (Today Show)
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The TLS:
In an idyllic one-acre olive grove that slopes down to the sunset and the sea, on Büyük Ada, the largest of the beautiful and well-policed Prinkipo islands just a ferry ride from the centre of Istanbul, stands a villa that on (Read More)
Workplace Prof Blog:
Senator Tom Harkin will speak at the University of Pittsburgh from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Barco Law Building's Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Harkin's free talk, part of the Thornburgh Family Le (Read More)
Workers Comp Insider:
You might not think that the H1N1 virus, commonly know as swine flu, has anything to do with the ADA. Well, you clearly have not been reading Nation's Restaurant News. Lisa Jennings writes a complex and cautionary tale for re (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. Dr Ramakrishnan shares the prize (Read More)
National Review Online:
The air was thick with hypotheticals at the Supreme Court last week as the justices considered whether a law designed to outlaw videos depicting cruelty to animals was constitutional. Because there is no floor to human de (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
India's Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group threatened a criminal case against the head of the country's upstream regulatory agency for falsely alleging that the company was threatening him. (Read More)
The Economist:
Prizes for optical fibres, charge-coupled devices, ribosomes and telomeresHOW do you look through a window that is 100km thick? That, in essence, was the question facing Charles Kao in 1966. For working out the answer, Dr Kao (Read More)
Reuters: Science News:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ada Yonath, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talked the U.S. government into spending $4.7 million on her research that eventually involved a Dead Sea salt-loving microbe.
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Reuters Video: Top News:
Oct 7 - Israeli Ada Yonath and Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz share the prestigious Nobel Prize for Chemistry for producing atom-by-atom maps of the mysterious, life-giving ribosome.
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Health News from Medical News Today:
Ronald L. Tankersley, D.D.S., who practices oral and maxillofacial surgery in Newport News, Williamsburg and Hampton, Va., was installed as president of the American Dental Association (ADA) and will lead the 157,000-member o (Read More)