Word: nearsightedness
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EYES Tired of glasses or contact lenses but too nearsighted for laser surgery? You might--if you dare--consider implanting a contact lens directly in your eye. Doctors can now surgically place an artificial lens in front of the eye's natural one. The lens is approved only for nearsighted...
It is1956, and Hoose is the new kid in his Indiana town, a klutzy, nearsighted third-grader who wears trousers a bit too high. Then his parents deliver the news "on the order of a cure for polio": Don Larsen--a New York Yankee!--is his cousin once removed. The...
Looking to brighten up your sink? The HANSACANYON LED WATER FAUCET, above left, has light-emitting diodes that change color as the water temperature changes, so you can see when it's too hot, too cold or just right. KWC'S EVE FAUCET, above right, provides an even more illuminating...
2 Hubble Rescued The Endeavour astronauts played Mr. and Ms. Goodwrench in space -- and on live television -- performing daring orbital repairs on the nearsighted Hubble Space Telescope and giving beleaguered NASA a badly needed boost.
When Keillor appeared at the Boston University bookstore last month, a long line wound through the foreign-language and dictionary sections, and each soul in it carried one or two or half a dozen copies of Lake Wobegon Days. (Half the book's royalties, says Keillor, go to Minnesota Public...