Article: 1st Ld-Writethru: More than 4,200 athletes to compete at Beijing Paralympics

Article: Blind people find lingering workplace bias
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ......training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array...only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated...a blind person, so they assume that blind people are not capable of doing most jobs when...

Article: Study suggests blind people compensate with more acute hearing
AP Online;  September 16, 1998 ;     437 words ......better hearing than people who can see. Blind people apparently compensate for their lost...that unlike people with normal vision, blind people could correctly pinpoint the source...question left unanswered is whether blind people learn to use their hearing more efficiently...

Article: Blind people 'prisoners in their own homes'.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  December 5, 2006 ;     256 words ......By Jonathan Walker Political Editor Blind people have become prisoners in their own homes...partially-sighted people. They were calling for blind people to be able to claim the same level of...worth pounds 43.45 a week. Currently, blind people are only eligible to claim the lower...

Article: Financial boost for sight impaired ; A Cleethorpes MP has helped push through an amendment to the law which will make blind people pounds1,500 a year better off.
Grimsby Telegraph;  March 28, 2009 ;     217 words ......amendment to the law which will make blind people pounds1,500 a year better off. A change...This is wonderful news for thousands of blind people across the country, who, from 2011...insurmountable barriers to mobility, blind people were denied the support they needed...

Article: Do blind people track sounds better?(Brief Article)
Science News;  September 19, 1998 ;     484 words ......origin when using both ears, but some blind people can home in on sounds more accurately...sounds. The researchers tested eight blind people, who had been completely sightless from...monaural, listening, four of the eight blind people identified sound sources more accurately...

Article: Seminar on IT and employment for blind people.
Vietnamese News Agency;  September 9, 2008 ;     222 words ......application and job opportunities for blind people held in central Da Nang city on Sept...Agency (SIDA), participants agreed that blind people need help to assess IT in order to improve...of projects on helping the Vietnamese blind people to gain access to IT, such as the ...

Article: Breakthrough computer for blind people
The Press;  April 14, 2000 ;     280 words ......Christchurch that opens the Internet to blind people has been described as a breakthrough...equivalent of a laptop computer for blind people. The computer contains a panel of cells...documents in Braille or hear them read out. Blind people learn to understand read text at a speed...

Article: Sindh Advisor pledges incentives for blind people.
PPI - Pakistan Press International;  October 29, 2005 ;     198 words ......Advisor Waseem Akhtar Saturday said blind people were an important component of society...government was committed to solving blind people's problems on priority basis. He said two-percent quota for blind people in public sector jobs already existed...

Article: Credo ascribed to certain masters of the art of teaching blind people.
Re:view;  March 22, 2005 ;     483 words ...I hold the art of teaching blind people how to perform without sight among the...personal service in direct contact with blind people, and that all organized work for the...ostentation in my bearing toward my work or blind people. Without morbid self-effacement or subservience...

Article: Call to increase cash for blind people
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  June 12, 2007 ;     194 words ......behalf of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) says that nine out of 10 people...quest to increase the benefits paid to blind people. The charity is calling for a change...of getting out and about. Currently blind people can only receive pounds17 a week, whereas...

Article: Vietnamese Government Takes Care of Blind People: Officials
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 2, 1997 ;     239 words ......attached great importance to helping blind people in the country, senior Vietnamese officials...worth of loans to help more than 26,000 blind people set up and develop businesses. The association...assisted nearly one million Vietnamese blind people with rehabilitation, job creation ...

Article: Blind people need help to access IT.
Vietnamese News Agency;  August 6, 2008 ;     159 words ......VBA) are working to seek ways to help blind people gain access to information technology...were more than 90 percent of 600,000 blind people in the country that have never had access...hardware. He said that IT centres for blind people were found in only 12 out of the country...

Article: Massage tops blind people's career options
Xinhua News Agency;  October 21, 2002 ;     121 words ...Massage tops blind people's career options BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Massage is an ideal job for blind people in China and there are more than 40...instruction center for massage therapy by blind people. The first national massage contest...

Article: BLIND PEOPLE'S BRAINS MAY SEE SUNLIGHT, EVEN IF EYES DO NOT
Post-Tribune (IN);  January 8, 1995 ;     150 words ......mystery solved: How do some totally blind people fall asleep at the same time each night...cannot tell light from dark? For many blind people, in fact, insomnia is a major problem...each day. For a fortunate minority of blind people, however, sleep at the appropriate time...