WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The National Council on Disability issued the following news release: The National Council on Disability (NCD)--an independent federal agency--today celebrates its 40-year anniversary of advancing federal disability policy through its advisory role to federal policymakers. On Nov. 6, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 95-602, replacing the former Title IV of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 with a new Title IV. The change established an advisory council within t  more

MERCED, California, Nov. 8 -- The University of California Merced campus issued the following news: Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum was honored Monday as the 12th distinguished recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance at the Art Kamangar Center at Merced Theater in downtown Merced. Menchu Tum discussed her life in front of a full house at the theater, highlighting her continued battle for social justice in her home country of   more