Designer Focuses on Marketing Adjustable Eyeglasses at $1 a Pair (Scientific American) More than 153 million people around the world with poor or no eyesight either don't have access to or can't afford vision correction, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Ninety percent live in low- or middle-income countries, WHO reports, where optometrists are harder to come by and individually crafted lenses cost too much for many. [More]
German Stocks Gain, Led by Banks, Allianz; Deutsche Post Falls (Bloomberg) Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks rebounded from a four- year low as Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc?s plan to put assets into a government insurance program and UBS AG?s appointment of a new chief executive officer lifted financial companies in Europe.
A new accent in Chinatown (Boston Globe) The little boy answered the teacher's question in perfect Cantonese, which until recently would have earned him praise at the Kwong Kow Chinese School in Boston's Chinatown.