Pageant prompts debate on meaning of disability

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Boston Globe (USA) - Apr 8, 2005:
Just weeks after the joy of that January night at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, Lee, who has muscular dystrophy, has been stripped of the title — and made to return the prizes, including the new scooter — after she was seen in a newspaper photograph standing up. Now the Ms. Wheelchair America pageant is in an uproar over just how disabled a winner must be. A national advocacy group protested that the dethroning reflects ”backward thinking” on the part of the pageant.