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THE NEW YORKER (July/28/2003)
The Mind's Eye, What the blind see.
by Oliver Sacks

In his last letter, Goethe wrote, "The Ancients said that the animals are taught through their organs; let me add to this, so are men, but they have the advantage of teaching their organs in return." He wrote this in 1832, a time when phrenology was at its height, and the brain was seen as a mosaic of "little organs" subserving everything from language to drawing ability to shyness.
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NEW YORK TIMES (Sept 2003)
Saturday Profile: A German Voyager's Bold Vision for Tibet's Blind
by Jim Yardley

LHASA, Tibet -- Upon arriving in Tibet, Sabriye Tenberken decided to tour the countryside,  not from the comfort of a car, but atop the hard saddle of a horse. It was a chancy decision, not only because the rugged Tibetan landscape can be unforgiving and treacherous, but also because Ms. Tenberken is blind.
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HONG KONG MORNING POST (October/13/2003)
A vision of hope

German Sabriye Tenberken lost her sight in her teens but never felt blindness was a handicap. Through her Braille Without Borders organisation she is helping others like her in Tibet think the same way, writes Tschang Chi-chu Blindness is sometimes compared to being in prison, the darkness acting as a barrier to the outside world.
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XINHUA NEWS AGENCY (October/30/2003)
German "Helen Keller" helps Tibetan blind children out of darkness.

LHASA, October 30 (CEIS) - For their work in setting up a Tibetan rehabilitation and training center for the blind, Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg, a couple respectively from Germany and the Netherlands, are well known and respected by the people in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
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