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Fifteen years ago, Dr. Terry Ernest, an ophthalmologist, had to tell his own father the news that he so dreaded giving his patients: Your eyesight is progressively deteriorating, and there is no cure for the condition. Despite tremendous medical progress in treating many forms of vision loss, Ernest could do nothing but watch as his father's eyesight slowly faded, eventually robbing him of the pleasure of pursuing the pages of his favorite books or seeing the smile on his son's face. "At one point, I actually apologized to my father for all the tuition he'd paid," says...
Earlier this year, a team of University of Chicago physicians led by Ernest and surgeon Dr. Samir Patel performed a complex operation on Pearl Van Vliet, a retired medical-center receptionist who was suffering from the same condition that had deprived Ernest's father of his sight. That disease is known as age-related macular degeneration, in which the eye's macula, a remarkably sensitive structure in the middle of the retina, gradually loses its ability to distinguish shapes and colors...
...when all they have done is put off the real task of cutting government spending to a manageable level. The financial threat to Medicare and Social Security is looming on the horizon, but all the politicos can focus on is getting re-elected. Term limits are the only answer. ERNEST J. ALLEN Dunnellon...
...better reason for optimism in the fight is that Carrillo is unlikely to be replaced by anyone as skilled as he was. For the time being, his younger brother Vicente, 34, is expected to run operations. "Carrillo was a force to be reckoned with," says special agent Ernest Howard, who is in charge of the DEA office in Houston. "He was a visionary. A visionary can be replaced, but not by anybody who comes along...
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin called the Marshall Plan a "lifeline to sinking men," and it was--although I expect some women in Europe were equally appreciative...