May/June 1997
EDITOR
Mary Johnson
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RAGGED EDGE MAGAZINE
(formerly The Disability
Rag & Resource) Vol 18,
No. 3, May/June,
1997.
ISSN: 0749-9596
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ARTICLES

The drive to put Roosevelt in a wheelchair says more about disability pride than Roosevelt.

Removing the nursing home stranglehold

Anybody on Medicaid can get into a nursing home; but not get in-home help. Why's that?

Back-and-forth squabbling on the Internet about "physician-induced death." Everybody's got something to say about it, seems like.

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Frequent updates on the assisted-suicide and right-to-die issue and other breaking disability-rights news.

POEMS

Pole Fishing

by Edward C. Lynskey.

An Abstract Artist's Dream by Robert Mauro

Alzheimer's by J. Lynn Hughes

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A word or two from the Editors.

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Awareness days, parking, activism, more ...

D.R. Nation

911 victory under wraps; condo fights ramp, Tampa fights parking, an Oscar, an admission.

History & Heroes

Mary Jane Owen tells about the 504 sit-in.

Point of View

Cass Irvin talks about the way we see attendants.

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Hot links to disability-rights pages and other Web sites relevant to this month's stories.

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