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Paralympics Bring Forward Plight of China’s Disabled

Peter Ford of The Christian Science Monitor reports on the increased — yet still low — awareness of China’s disabled citizens with the arrival of the Beijing Paralympic Games. The Paralympic Games that opened here Saturday are drawing tens of thousands of spectators to venues across Beijing. Hardly any of them, though, are disabled. Even at the premier global event celebrating handicapped peo