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		<title>UK woman wins disability case against Abercrombie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times, BBC News, Associated Press, and AFP; Riam Dean, 22, was awarded £9,000 by an employment tribunal after alleging that she was harassed and dismissed by the Abercrombie &#38; Fitch clothing chain for reasons related to her disability. Dean sued the clothing giant for discrimination, saying the firm&#8217;s London store banished her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book probes treatments aimed at making kids &#8216;normal&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts of well-meaning doctors, parents often had tragic results, authors find In the San Francisco Chronicle, Heidi Benson reviews &#8220;Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry&#8217;s Quest to Manipulate Height.&#8221; Authors Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove trace the history of height manipulation over the decades, interviewing men and women whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 16:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press, ABC News: &#8220;When somebody has a disfigurement and don&#8217;t look as pretty as you do, don&#8217;t judge them, because you never know what happened to them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge people who don&#8217;t look the same as you do. Because you never know. One day it might be all taken away.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof urges colleagues to &#8216;come out&#8217; about invisible disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Inside Higher Ed, Linda Kornasky urges professors with invisible disabilities to share their disability status with their students. My experience with both options of negotiating my [invisible] disability &#8211; retaining privacy and coming out &#8211; has shown me that, although coming out is not a necessity for me to perform my job as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Their dancing invites stares</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times, with video: A new modern dance company that calls itself Gimp is confronting public stereotypes about disability. Many of its members have undeveloped or amputated limbs, or bodies that defy common expectations. Dancer Catherine Long enjoys the way the dance production makes audiences reexamine what they think they know about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arts review: &#8216;We&#8217;re all able in our own ways &#8230;&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the [UK] Times, film director Ken Russell (Women in Love, Tommy) offers his admiration for a digital art installation by Simon Mckeown called Biodiverse: MotionDisabled. Mckeown uses technology to create 3-D animations of performers who are living with conditions such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, missing limbs, brittle bones and short stature. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In UK, ban sought on abortions for cleft palate, club foot</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/07/06/cleft-palate-2623/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Scotsman: Conservative Member of Parliament Nadine Dorries is pushing for a measure that would specifically prohibit abortions for club foot and cleft palate. The UK&#8217;s Abortion Act says that an abortion may be carried out if the child &#8220;would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be serious handicapped,&#8221; but does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie review: &#8216;Quid Pro Quo&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/06/16/quid-pro-quo-2340/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor calls it &#8220;a perverse psychological drama about able-bodied people who yearn to become disabled,&#8221; and gives it a C-. Premiere gives it three stars, and calls it &#8220;a dark romance.&#8221; The Los Angeles Times says it&#8217;s &#8220;unexpectedly moving.&#8221; Quid Pro Quo, in limited release, is the story of a public radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: People with disabilities can be sexy</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/06/06/columnist-people-with-disabilities-can-be-sexy-2269/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yvonne K. Fulbright, the &#8216;Sexpert&#8217; for Fox.com, says it&#8217;s time for society to reexamine and change its attitudes about sex and disability. &#8220;People with disabilities can be very sexual &#8212; much more than we give them credit for,&#8221; she says. Fulbright offers a list of stereotypes that need to be challenged. Among them: People with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After mountain lion attack, woman adjusts to disfigurement</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/05/16/after-mountain-lion-attack-woman-adjusts-to-disfigurement-2134/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times: A young woman walked into a restaurant last week and sat close enough to get a good look at Anne Hjelle&#8216;s face. A mountain lion had torn off the left side four years before, leaving it hanging by a flap of skin. Six surgeries hadn&#8217;t camouflaged the scars. &#8220;She saw [...]]]></description>
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