For those of you that might be interested, there are two interesting
articles about disability in Newsweek this week:
To the Front
Soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing the unthinkable:
Going back into battle
http://g.msn.com/0MNBUS00/2?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7101643/site/newswee
k&&CM=EmailThis&CE=1
"Some wounded soldiers are willing to do almost anything to get back into
uniform. After Senior Airman Anthony Pizzifred, 20, lost his leg just above
the ankle in Afghanistan last March, surgeons told him that the best
prosthetic leg-one that would allow him to walk, run and wade in the
ocean-was designed for those with more severe amputations. Pizzifred wanted
maximum mobility as fast as possible. So he told his doctors to take off as
much as they needed."
The Gift Of ADHD?
Two new books look at the upside of a disorder.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7102727/site/newsweek/
"So how, at the age of 24, did he end up as a partner in a Massachusetts
real-estate firm? He credits an unlikely source. "The key to my success," he
says, was his ADHD." Of course, according to the author, the "risk" is
"over-romanticizing" ADHD...
Best,
-John
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