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• Study focuses on disability and employment among working-age immigrants in the U.S. (News-Medical-Net)
  Currently, foreign-born people make up approximately 13 percent of the total U.S. population. As the immigrant population grows, understanding its disability status and employment characteristics becomes increasingly important.
• Returning to Work With a Pain in the Wherever (Risk & Insurance)
  Chronic pain is not only debilitating for sufferers, it can drive presenteeism, absenteeism and higher disability costs for employers. The right RTW strategy can end the headache.
• Parker lawsuit moves forward (Brattleboro Reformer)
  Thursday March 11, 2010 BRATTLEBORO -- While several of the claims filed by former Brattleboro Police officer Terrance Parker against the town were dismissed on Tuesday, a Windham County District Court judge allowed his suit to go forward on a claim that he was fired without regard of his disability.
• Health Calendar (The Doings Western Springs)
  A fitness program for veterans is accepting new applicants. The program is offered free-of-charge to qualifying veterans returning from active duty with a disability.
• POLL: Is the Llamas brothers' claim against the city justified? (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
  More than $47 million is being sought in claims filed last week against the city of Topeka accusing it of civil wrongs that include negligence and conspiracy linked to the March 2008 shootings of brothers Daniel and Devin Llamas by off-duty police officer Jason Judd. read more
• CAROLYN HAX: Friendship can last when principles don't (Detroit Free Press)
  Hi, Carolyn: A very close friend said she was never going to do XYZ and now, nearly a decade later, she is doing XYZ. I was thrown by this decision. I thought she was the type of person to stand by what she believed in. Or, she was lying to me the entire time, and to herself.
• Children's musical drafts special-needs painters (The News Journal)
  If you attend the upcoming children's play "It's Not Mean To Be Green -- The Musical," you'll see a special work of art created by about 60 special-needs students from Delaware.
• A unique Scottish performer is challenging prejudice by using here crutches as the central device in a career in ... (The Scotsman)
  CLAIRE Cunningham was 14 when she was forced to use crutches for the first time – and she loathed them. Today, they are so much part of her identity she cannot imagine her lif
• Chatham Middle School students to take part in diversity contest (Chatham Courier)
  THE CHATHAMS - Sixth-grade students from 26 Morris County public, private and parochial schools, including the Chatham Middle School on Main Street, are participating in the 2010 diversity contest, “What Prejudice Means to Me,” sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), West Morris Section.
• Calendar (Norridge-Harwood Heights News)
  Submissions for the Community Calendar are required 10 days preceding the date of publication. Send to: Pioneer Press, 3701 W. Lake Ave., Glenview IL 60026. Information may be faxed to (847) 486-7495 or e-mailed to mbottari@pioneerlocal.com.

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