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		<title>Paralympics icon Hansen says Games have come a long way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Toronto Globe &#38; Mail, Canadian athlete Rick Hansen says the Paralympic Games have made great progress since he won six medals for wheelchair racing in 1980 and 1984.
He cites improvements in training, equipment and sponsorship, but acknowledges that &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be a difficult challenge&#8221; to bring broader acceptance to the Games. An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriver stresses humanity of people with intellectual disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Washington Post profile of Tim Shriver, writer Manuel Roig-Franzia examines the Special Olympics chairman&#8217;s campaign to discourage language that makes fun at the expense of people with intellectual disabilities.
Shriver has received apologies from President Obama, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (sort of) for &#8220;colloquial jabs about &#8216;retards&#8217; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: As vaccines win court case, parents should move on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal hail the recent court rulings that dismiss allegations of a link between vaccines and autism in children. An excerpt:
The rulings follow the same court&#8217;s judgment last year against claims that measles-mumps-rubella shots in combination with other thimerosal-containing vaccines cause autism. And they reinforce many comprehensive scientific studies, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Paralympians deserve nationally broadcast finale</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/16/column-paralympic-tv-coverage-28760/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun columnist Miro Cernetig reacts to the decision by CTV not to broadcast the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games across Canada. The Canadian television network subsequently reversed itself and broadcast the ceremonies, but only in British Columbia.
Cernetig urges network executives to &#8220;rectify their unfortunate slight of the world&#8217;s Paralympians&#8221; by broadcasting the closing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic games aim to change perceptions</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/15/paralympic-games-change-perceptions-28750/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Vancouver Sun, Jeff Lee says the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games, which kicked off this weekend in Vancouver, is &#8220;an event that organizers say should help change the way people view others who are missing limbs or eyesight or have bodies that don’t function the way theirs do.&#8221;
More than 60,000 people gathered Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada ratifies UN disability rights treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/15/canada-ratifies-un-disability-rights-treaty-28744/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBC News:
Canada has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Speaking at the UN in New York, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the action underscores the Canadian government&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities and enabling their full participation in society.&#8221;
Advocates say the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In 3 cases, court rejects autism-vaccine link</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/15/court-rejects-autism-vaccine-link-28739/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, AP/Wall Street Journal:
A special federal court ruled Friday that the vaccine additive thimerosal does not cause autism. The ruling, which came in three separate cases, follows a parallel ruling in 2009 that autism is not caused by the combination of thimerosal with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Experts said the rulings would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK watchdog: TV channels have the right to air &#8216;R-word&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/11/uk-watchdog-offensive-content-28716/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Telegraph:
An independent UK media regulator has rejected a request for sanctions against a leading television channel for using the word &#8220;retard&#8221; in a reality show, saying the comment was covered by European human rights protections of free speech.
The complaint was brought by the mother of two children with disabilities, after Vinnie Jones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;You just don&#8217;t look disabled&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/11/you-just-dont-look-disabled-28708/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/11/you-just-dont-look-disabled-28708/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN interviews athlete and actress Aimee Mullins, a double amputee who has set world records using prosthetic devices. An excerpt:
[Mullins] believes that people are not born disabled. &#8220;It&#8217;s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty plea in Texas &#8216;fight club&#8217; brings 4-year jail term</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/11/guilty-plea-fight-club-2-28695/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ABC News:
A former Texas state employee has pleaded guilty for his role in organizing brawls between residents of an institution for people with intellectual disabilities. Guadalupe De Larosa accepted a plea agreement, admitting to three counts of injuring a person with an intellectual disability, and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Another former employee, [...]]]></description>
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