eyeglasses News Archive

06-Aug-2008

 

  • Pentagon spends $300M to study troops' stress, trauma (USA Today)
    The Pentagon is spending an unprecedented $300 million this summer on research for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, offering hope not only for troops but hundreds of thousands of civilians.


  • Lions Club offers free eyeglasses (The Gleaner)
    If your son or daughter in kindergarten or first grade needs eyeglasses, and you have not yet taken him or her for a vision screening, you are in luck.


  • Mother trying to keep son's murderer jailed (Boston Globe)
    Thirty-five years have passed since the nearly naked body of Charlotte Davis' 12-year-old son was found under the snow in a remote woodland in Hollis, a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his brain.


  • Bugs Money (The New York Observer)
    Manhattan has a mind-boggling number of Irish bars?at least 85, according to Zagat?and Stephen Ceol has staked a claim in many of them. ?I?m the king of the Irish bars,? Mr. Ceol said proudly, standing by the bar at one such Gaelic-themed gastropub in midtown in the wee hours of a Wednesday night last month. Upon arrival, the self-proclaimed king, bejeweled in Prada eyeglasses and a ...


  • Latest fashion trend for all to see (The Pantagraph)
    Patsy Webber has 11 pairs of eyeglasses, and expects to pick up a few more for good measure. Webber is part of a growing trend of consumers treating eyewear as a fashion statement.


  • MISSING COUPLE MYSTERY (New York Post)
    Los Angeles homicide detectives swooped into Boston yesterday to find out if high-society scammer Clark Rockefeller is the mysterious suspect in a 20-year-old missing-persons case. "We will interview him to find out if he is, indeed, the same guy...


  • If oil is down a lot in price, why is gas down only a little? (Sun-Sentinel)
    An expert explains that the drop in crude prices won't result in penny-for-penny decreases at the pump. Crude oil prices are dropping sharply. Gasoline prices are falling, too, but not nearly as much. What's going on here? We asked an independent expert to explain.


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