eyeglasses News Archive

30-Dec-2007

 

  • Navajo council buys eyeglasses for 9,000 schoolchildren (The Arizona Republic)
    WINDOW ROCK- The Navajo Nation's Tribal Council has voted to buy eyeglasses for more than 9,000 Navajo school children who cannot see the blackboard.


  • Marvin Read column (The Pueblo Chieftain)
    Forward, backward: Two views help to begin the year Janus, a god of Roman mythology, was blessed with a head that had a face on both its front and aft sections so that he could see not only where he was going, but where he?d been. So, while his toothpaste and eyeglasses expenses might have been double the usual, he at least was highly regarded by the Romans as s


  • Bringing things into focus: 9,000 Navajo students to receive prescription eyeglasses (The Farmington Daily Times)
    WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. ? Thousands of Navajo schoolchildren are expected to earn better grades in school next year following the Tribal Council's vote last week to remedy a widespread problem.


  • Navajo Nation will buy glasses for 9,000 kids (Arizona Daily Star)
    WINDOW ROCK ? The Navajo Nation's Tribal Council has voted to buy eyeglasses for more than 9,000 Navajo schoolchildren who cannot see the blackboard.


  • Donations to Neediest Cases provide aid for living, dying (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
    The ordinary costs of daily living -- providing food, shelter, transportation -- can place extraordinary demands on those on a fixed income or facing unexpected crisis.


  • HAVEN's network always there for abused kids (Royal Oak Daily Tribune)
    Each year HAVEN serves about 17,000 people with the treatment and prevention of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.


  • Duque: Expand list of banned ?crackers (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
    Health Secretary Francisco Duque III warned anew Saturday that the list of prohibited firecrackers and pyrotechnics should be reviewed. According to Duque, there are firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices "allowed" under the law, which should be banned because of the danger they pose to the public.


  • To Readers, CFLs Were Topic That Shone Brightest In'07 (Hartford Courant)
    Light bulbs, razor blades, eyeglasses and identity theft products were among the topics that resonated most with readers in 2007.


  • GEAR & GADGETS (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
    GEAR & GADGETS Sounds and lights work together to either relax or stimulate you with the MindSpa, a newfangled sensory device about the size of a portable cassette player. It can be used in a plane, car or while resting in your hotel room. A selection of 12 "sessions," lasting 10 to 40 minutes each, is programmed into the handheld battery-operated control unit.


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