Electric EDGE
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The Ragged Edge
Nov/Dec 1997

Electric Edge

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November/December 1997

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Mary Johnson

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RAGGED EDGE MAGAZINE
(formerly The Disability
Rag & Resource)
Vol 18,
No. 6, Nov./Dec., 1997.
ISSN: 0749-9596
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  • COVER STORY

    'Chicken Soup is pabulum,' say disabled activists

    A new Chicken Soup for the Soul book stars disabled people. Uh oh!

    ARTICLES

    Welfare reform & us

    The benefits-cutting 'welfare reform' fervor may turn on us next, says Anne Finger.

    They just don't get it

    The Left still doesn't do disability rights. Reporting by Mary Johnson.

    No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

    Bill Bolt spends a lonely New Year's Eve confronting a Leftist gathering.

    FICTION & POETRY

    Piano Playing

    From Tim Laskowski's novel-in-progress.

    Good, Falling Like Snow at Christmas

    Poem by Leslie Palmer.

    COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

    From the Editor

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    Why FDR hid, why firemen are good, more.

    D.R. Nation

    HUD stalls, captioning falls short, more.

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    Death warmed over, fashion vs stigma, no vigor, no visitor; sports'n'suicide, and an Oregon poll ...

    Our History & Heroes

    Mary Jane Owen on radical Mary Switzer.

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    Staring Back and The Bone Collector

    On Edge

    Michael Volkman and Kelli Vitt on the 'thon.

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