eyeglasses News Archive

28-Jan-2008

 

  • Will Rudy Shine? (Time Magazine)
    Rudy Giuliani has been running for President in a blur--literally. He needs his eyeglasses to see distance, but at most events he won't wear them. Instead, he rattles through his stump speech--tax cuts increase revenue, beware of Hillary Clinton, remember 9/11--while gazing into a fuzzy void.


  • Optometrists want sale of reading glasses regulated (Sun Star)
    READING eyeglasses may only be prescribed by an optometrist licensed by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC), and the sale of these along sidewalks and in other types of business establishments will soon be regulated in Baguio.


  • (AFX UK Focus) 2008-01-28 04:55 GMT: Japan's Hoya Q3 net up 13 pct on strong vision care ops, Pentax consolidation (Interactive Investor)
    TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Hoya Corp, Japan's largest maker of eyeglasses and the world's top producer of semiconductor mask blanks, said Monday that net profit for its fiscal third-quarter to December rose 13 percent from a year earlier thanks to strong sales at its vision care and healthcare divisions.


  • Elderly couple hopes to see new life in burned canyon (San Jose Mercury News)
    POWAY - The 88-year-old man sits on a bench and lights a cracked briar pipe. He looks out at the black void and sighs.


  • In a Way, He Took Our Lives, Too (Washington Post)
    When I think of my father, I see fragments of him: sad brown eyes, a downcast mouth, huge hands clasping and unclasping indecisively. I see his 6-foot-2 frame towering over me, his enormous feet digging into the sand at Bailey Beach as he barbecues hamburgers. I see him playing the piano, singing...


  • You'll be Shocked to Find Out How Much Eyeglasses Really Cost (PR.com)
    Samuel Babarinde, founder of Supereyespex.com, an online cheapest optical store, discloses the true prices of eyeglasses and how he saved the population over $4m on their prescription glasses [PR.com - January 25, 2008]


  • Lions Club adding Lehigh Valley youth to its pride (The Morning Call)
    Chapters of the volunteer organization starting up at colleges, universities. The graying mane of the Lions Club is hoping to get a youthful rinse.


  • Old Memories Look Better Through New Glasses (New York Times)
    As Sasha Meza has suffered from spastic quadriplegia, her mother and grandmother have striven to give her a typical childhood.


  • Theater review (The Oregonian)
    Eyeglasses have existed since at least the 13th century, and yet, when they're needed most -- in the midst of a Shakespearean comedy -- they're nowhere to be found.


  • Obscure science became courtroom tool (San Diego Union-Tribune)
    There came a moment during the O.J. Simpson trial when George ?Woody? Clarke, one of the prosecutors, began to sense that things might not turn out well.


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