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Responding to the Handicapped
There is a tendency to think of people with disabilities as one group facing exactly the same challenges and to treat them as if their disabilities are the most significant thing about them. On the other hand, people with disabilities have to deal no...(more details) |
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Understanding Hearing Loss
This program explains sound, hearing, hearing loss, and the relationship between listening to speech and different kinds of hearing loss. It includes realistic simulations of what speech sounds like with different kinds of hearing loss, and useful hi...(more details) |
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Green Medicines
The rainforests of the world are our most prominent pharmacy and drugstore. More than a third of all prescription medicines in the western world are derived from rainforest plants. Yet, at the present rate of destruction of these forests worldwide, w...(more details) |
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The Great Health Care Debate
This program with Bill Moyers examines the role of the media and special interest groups in the demise of national health care reform. More than $100 million has been spent on public relations, advertising, lobbying, and lawyering in connection with ...(more details) |
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Signing and Language
Scientists have only recently begun to show interest in signing as language; the common assumption was simply that sign language was a kind of substitute for the spoken word, using the hands to form letters and words. But now linguists have come to r...(more details) |
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