eyeglasses News Archive

13-Jan-2009

 

  • Italian Stocks: Credem, Lottomatica, Prysmian, Saipem, Tenaris (Bloomberg)
    Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Italy?s benchmark S&P/MIB Index fell for a third session, losing 576, or 2.9 percent, to 19,335. The following stocks were among the most active on the Italian market today. Share symbols are in parentheses.


  • Hints From Heloise (Washington Post)
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  • Hints From Heloise (Washington Post)
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  • Abbott Makes $1.36 Billion Deal for Advanced Medical (Update1) (Bloomberg)
    Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Abbott Laboratories will pay $1.36 billion for Advanced Medical Optics, a maker of eye-surgery equipment, advancing the drugmaker into another market that may benefit from the aging population.


  • Self-adjusting eyeglasses invented for the poor (Everett Herald)
    OXFORD, England -- Joshua Silver remembers the first day he helped a man see. Henry Adjei-Mensah, a tailor in Ghana, could no longer see well enough to thread the needle of his sewing machine. He was too poor to afford glasses or an optometrist.


  • Eye-opening invention for world's poor (Seattle Times)
    Joshua Silver said he wants to provide eyeglasses to more than a billion people with poor eyesight. For starters, he hopes to distribute 1 million pairs in India during the next year or so.


  • Algiers man found dead in his apartment at seniors complex (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
    Autopsy scheduled for Tuesday; police suspect homicide


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