eyeglasses News Archive

12-Dec-2008

 

  • How to save money in the next three weeks (CNN)
    Jo-Lynne Shane is furiously looking for ways to spend $500 in the next three weeks. If she doesn't, that money will disappear at the stroke of midnight December 31.


  • Cholera raging in Zimbabwe despite Mugabe denial (International Herald Tribune)
    With millions in Zimbabwe suffering severe hunger and cholera spilling into neighboring countries, there are rising international calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down.


  • RAUNCH RAP IN BIAS SUIT VS. VERSACE (New York Post)
    A top Versace fashion executive was hit yesterday with explosive sex-harassment claims by a former assistant who says she was forced to convey intimate phone messages from her boss's gay lovers. One caller said he left his eyeglasses in Patrick...


  • Ask AP: Petroleum products, the Cuba trade embargo (San Francisco Chronicle)
    What do jet fuel, bubble gum and the bristles in your toothbrush have in common? They all have ingredients that can be traced back to the same raw material. (Hint: It's a liquid, it's found underground and it's often accused of being "crude.") They're also...


  • Ask AP: Petroleum products, the Cuba trade embargo (AP via Yahoo! News)
    What do jet fuel, bubble gum and the bristles in your toothbrush have in common?


  • Millions need eyeglasses but don't have them (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    More than 1 billion people globally suffer from a condition in which the eye's lens loses flexibility, blurring objects close by, and half of them do not own eyeglasses to help them see, researchers said on Monday.


  • Thousands of Wash. kids waiting for new eyeglasses (Seattle Times)
    Nine-year-old Kiera Williams is among thousands of Washington children enrolled in the state's Medicaid program who have waited months for new eyeglasses.


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