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The American Association on Mental Retardation in Washington, D.C., has created a new Internet-based news service called RADAR that monitors more than 150 major newspapers and trade publications for news coverage of national and international disability issues. "These 'early-alert' RADAR reports are open to everyone on the Internet and will give the disability community advanced warning of trends in disability issues," says association executive director Doreen Croser.

"We believe that disability organizations, interested individuals and the entire disability community will benefit from this one-of-a-kind news tracking service."

Examples of major issues that RADAR will track include abuse, housing, transportation, employment, and aging. Information will be summarized in biweekly reports and stored in an online database. Keywords are added to the summaries to allow researchers to track developments on particular subjects over time at the national, regional, state or local level. RADAR can be viewed by visiting http://www.aamr.org/Radar/index.html.

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