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Sep 19 2008, Chris Backe

“Blind masseurs jump from bridge”:(Photo credit: AP) The story as reported by CNN (first reported by Yonhap, a Korean news agency) is definitely a combination of five words you wouldn’t expect to see together in the news. I could think of a few...

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Attorney General Martha Coakley, back left, and Dr. Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, stand by as Perkins School for the Blind students Cory Kadlik, 17, left and Laurie Cherry-White, 17, right, explore screen access software.