Well... no Google Doodle... but with a little "googling" I was able to discover Google has acknowledged the importance of today.
[Cross-posted on Google Public Policy Blog]
Official Google Blog: Honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Bending, walking, breathing, hearing, seeing and sleeping are simple things that are often taken for granted, as are thinking, learning, and communicating.
Twenty years ago today, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. This milestone legislation bans persons or companies from discriminating against anyone with limited abilities. It’s hard to imagine a world in which the right to participate in activities commonly enjoyed by the bulk of the population are denied or inadequately accommodated, but that was the case before ADA.
Read more at:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/honoring-20th-anniversary-of-americans.html
or
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/07/honoring-20th-anniversary-of-americans.html
A blog describing my journeys in life. It opens with an accounting of my trip to Santiago, Chile. Not sure where or how it ends...it's a mystery I hope to uncover shortly. At the Lord ’s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is [her] journey by stages: - Numbers 33:2
Quote of the moment
"I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue." Martin Buber
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