eyeglasses News Archive

13-Dec-2008

 

  • An extraordinary bond (Las Vegas Sun)
    The bond between a man and his dog is so strong that Thomas Mann, the German Nobel laureate, wrote a novella about it.


  • Shanghai's underground eyeglasses market quite a spectacle (Contra Costa Times)
    Prescription glasses are made right in the stores and can be had for far cheaper than what's available in the United States. The hard part is finding the market itself.


  • Police beat (Daily Herald)
    A 2008 Chevrolet sedan on the 600 block of Trace Drive was broken into between midnight and 3 p.m. Dec. 9; a radar detector, laptop computer, fur coat, ski boots, sunglasses and watch were stolen. Total loss was estimated at $5,010.


  • Miami shows off its help for the homeless (Miami Herald)
    Rising unemployment and other consequences of the struggling U.S. economy have helped fuel a rise in homelessness in many of the nation's big cities, though Miami has been spared, according to a report released Friday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.


  • Millions need eyeglasses but don't have them-study (AlertNet)
    Source: Reuters CHICAGO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...


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