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A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in correcting a nettlesome part of the theatergoing experience.

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When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day. I spent a summer working with Geoffrey ...