eyeglasses News Archive

18-Dec-2008

 

  • Six Flags holds holiday charity drive (Vallejo Times-Herald)
    Guests visiting Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's Holiday in the Park can help the less fortunate in several ways, according to a park announcement.Six Flags is accepting donations of used but usable eyeglasses, new, unwrapped toys for needy children and bags of food staples


  • Italy Stocks: Atlantia, Enel, Erg, Fiat, Finmeccanica, STM, UBI (Bloomberg)
    Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Italy?s benchmark S&P/MIB Index rose 51, or 0.3 percent, to 19,352. The following stocks were among the most active on the Italian market today. Share symbols are in parentheses.


  • AT A GLANCE: Northern Downriver (The News-Herald)
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  • Eye doctor is accused of bilking Medicaid (Miami Herald)
    A Broward ophthalmologist has been arrested for allegedly defrauding Medicaid out of more than $20,000, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said Wednesday.


  • Coming up (The Citizen of Morris County)
    Right Now Old eyeglasses and hearing aids are being collected to distribute to children in a joint venture by the Woman?s Club of Denville and the Rotary Club of the Rockaways.  Drop-off boxes have been placed in the following locations: 


  • Craigslist Founder Reverts to Old Media to Find Lost Pair of Glasses (SFist)
    Found over at Page and Divisadero, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark uses antiquated means of finding a lost pair of eyeglasses . (The phone number handwritten on the ad matches the business card posted at the bottom, which was confirmed as Newmark's.) Oh, the irony! Anyway, they're brown Okio glasses with turquoise undertones and a heavy prescription. Have you seen these specs? ...


  • Wish List Quad-Cities: Young couple hopes for holiday help for daughter (Quad-City Times)
    Roxane Fuller and Kurt Gagel hope something finally breaks their way this holiday season. ?When we get our foot in the door, it seems we get it pulled back,? said Fuller, who turns 21 today.


  • Half a billion without needed eyeglasses (Canada.com)
    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.


  • Iowa City author well known for flamboyance (The Gazette)
    Family of the late Vivian Buchan say that if you had ever met this dynamic woman, you would have known it.If her red cape, high heels, flamboyant catlike eyeglasses or her big yellow Cadillac didn't do the trick, then her larger than life personality would have stuck in your mind, cousin Mark Heathman, 65, of Cedar Rapids, said."Vivian came from a generation of individualists," Heathman said. ...


  • Iowa City author well known for flamboyance (The Gazette)
    IOWA CITY and#8212; Family of the late Vivian Buchan say that if you've ever met this dynamic woman, you would known it.If her red cape, high heels, flamboyant catlike eyeglasses or her big yellow Cadillac didn't do the trick, then her larger than life personality would have stuck in your mind, cousin Mark Heathman, 65, of Cedar Rapids, said."Vivian came from a generation of individualists," ...


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