eyeglasses News Archive

21-Apr-2009

 

  • WPU students learn the fundamentals of stand-up comedy (The Record and Herald News)
    What: Funniest College Student Competition, featuring the funniest stand-up comedians from colleges in the region. When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Where: The Martini Conference Room of Hobart Hall on the William Paterson University campus, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne.


  • Raleigh man owned dubious bank in Ponzi scheme (The News & Observer)
    International businessman William Wise roamed far and wide during the 10 years he lived in Raleigh, powering around different continents via his own limousines, luxury cars and personal jet, according to associates and court documents.


  • Volunteers make sure kids don't go hungry (The Ocala Star-Banner)
    Jerri Shorey thought it would be an easy thing for On Top of the World Lions Club members to bring a can of food to each meeting to be donated to Food for Kids, a program that fills backpacks with food for local students. After all, the club's members are pros at helping others, especially those who are sight and hearing impaired.


  • Italian Stocks: Amplifon, Beni Stabili, Campari, Safilo, STM (Bloomberg)
    April 21 (Bloomberg) -- Italy?s benchmark S&P/MIB Index added 226, or 1.3 percent, to 17,957 as of 11:15 a.m. in Milan. The following stocks were among the most active on the Italian market today. Symbols are in parentheses.


  • Blankets to full coverage: Outreach Group of the Enclave helps in many ways (Asbury Park Press)
    A Lakewood resident's offer a few years ago to make warm fleece blankets for area homeless people was the catalyst for a group that now provides help in a wide variety of ways for people across Ocean County.


  • 'Vision' entrepreneurs -- the new rural biz (rediff.com)
    VisionSpring trains low-income men and women as vision entrepreneurs and equips them with to sell affordable working eyeglasses and other eyecare products. These entrepreneurs screen for blurry up-close vision, an age-related physical condition that sets in between 35 and 40 years, sell affordable working glasses to those in need and refer those requiring more advanced eyecare to partner ...


  • Learning the art of the joke (The Record and Herald News)
    In the stand-up comedy course at William Paterson University, freshman Celestine Dupree bounds in front of the class ready to perform her comedy routine.


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