eyeglasses News Archive

04-Aug-2008

 

  • Shoppers Take Advantage of Sales Tax Holiday (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
    The District of Columbia will offer its second 2008 Sales Tax Holiday beginning at 12:01 am Saturday, August 2 through midnight Sunday, August 10. The Sales Tax holiday grants an exemption from the 5.75 percent sales tax for school supplies, clothes, shoes, and accessory items.


  • It took 20-20 vision to see nothing sells like specs (Independent)
    Dame Mary Perkins adamantly denies she's the Imelda Marcos of spectacles. Unlike the former first lady of the Philippines, who had 1,060 pairs of shoes in her wardrobe by the time her husband was deposed, Dame Mary insists she has "just" four dozen eyeglasses.


  • Entertainment Calendar (The Daily News)
    Compiled by The Daily News THURSDAY, JULY 31


  • Beliefs turned out to be false (Journal Inquirer)
    This week, I?m going to continue, and conclude, my series of columns about ?Things I used to know that turned out to be false.?


  • Fact or fiction? (The Star)
    WE?VE all heard that reading in the dark and playing too much computer games are bad for your eyes, along with a host of other lines that seem to make sense.


  • More than Rushmore: South Dakota road trip (The Pantagraph)
    CUSTER STATE PARK, S.D. -- The wild burro wouldn?t take no for an answer. We had already encountered grazing pronghorn antelope, packs of wild turkeys, prairie dogs, and enough bison to render us downright blase when yet another of the enormous beasts emerged on our four-day trip through the Black Hills of South Dakota.


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