The public image of people with disabilities has often hinged on the heroic or the tragic. Contemporary TV programs and movies are changing those perceptions
By Mireya Navarro
When Josh Blue won NBC's Last Comic Standing last season, he did so with riffs like this: "My right arm does a lot of crazy stuff. Like the other day, I thought someone had stolen my wallet."

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MOCA director, Lai Hsiang-ling, says running a contemporary art museum is a balance between appealing to the local community and choosing the right curator
By Noah Buchan
Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶) is passionate about contemporary art. The mere mention of an installation or video projection are all that's needed to send the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA, 台北當代藝術館) director off on a tangent about the diverse array of artists exhibiting in her museum or the curators she works with.

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In a nod to environmental concerns, many major firms boast of what they are doing to reduce the amount of material used in packaging their products
By Claudia H. Deutsch
Marketers usually boast about what they have added to their products. Increasingly, though, they are bragging about what they are taking out — by cutting down on packaging and its impact on the environment.

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Wynford Dore is a man of action who claims he has a ‘miracle cure’ for dyslexia. His new book lauds the treatment that is offered at 30 clinics worldwide
By Jules Quartly
Spin around in a circle 10 times, then do it in reverse and sit on a big medicine ball. Is this difficult? Feeling sick? If the answers are yes it could be that your cerebellum isn't functioning as it should and as a result you may have problems reading this sentence.

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‘My South Seas Sleeping Beauty’ marks the English-language debut of Taiwan-Malaysian novelist Zhang Guixing and is a colorful and intriguing story
By Bradley Winterton
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty (我思念的長眠中的南國公主) marks the English-language debut of Taiwan-Malaysian novelist Zhang Guixing (張貴興). It goes, as it were, directly to the Number One slot, appearing in Columbia's Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan series, currently 14 titles strong. In Valerie Jaffee's superb translation into idiomatic yet eloquent English, this colorful and intriguing novel effortlessly justifies its new-found status.

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