eyeglasses News Archive

18-Mar-2009

 

  • Italian Production Falls as Companies Keep Cutting Output, Jobs (Bloomberg)
    March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Industrial production in Italy fell in January for a fifth month as the nation?s worst recession in more than 30 years forced companies to keep cutting output and jobs.


  • Good eyeglass frames to fit your face (The State)
    Roman Beznovsky and Felix Milman treat eyeglasses like jewelry for the face. The most expensive glasses they sell, for instance, are $3,800 platinum and diamond frames from Cartier. Their Romanelli Optix boutiques, in Kansas City, Mo., carry names recognizable from the runway and Fifth Avenue.


  • EDDIE EYEGLASSES VISITS STUDENTS (Coshocton Tribune)
    Eddie Eyeglasses visited the kindergarten through second-grade classes at Sacred Heart School on March 11. The Eddie Eyeglasses program is sponsored by the local Lions Club. Eddie talked with the children about eye safety, the need for regular eye check-ups, the importance of wearing your eyeglasses, and about their collection and recycling of old pairs of eyeglasses.


  • EYAL WARSHAVSKY, AP / (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines)
    In this July 20, 1997 file photo, an unidentified tourist adjusts her eyeglasses while looking through glass at the Dead Sea Scroll in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. An Israeli scholar is taking on the accepted wisdom about the Dead Sea Scrolls, claiming that the Essenes, a sect of ascetic Jews long thought to have authored the ancient Hebrew texts never existed. The ...


  • Elevator Accidents in Public Housing Are Frequent, and Costly (New York Times)
    A review of records shows about 300 injuries in elevator-related mishaps since 2001 in New York City public housing.


  • Shot in the arm for digital health care (Chicago Tribune)
    Obama reform plan seeks to help doctors embrace the use of information technology VERO BEACH, Fla. ? A stethoscope with three tiny koalas dangling from his neck and eyeglasses perched on his nose, Dennis Saver looks every bit the family doctor as he steps into the examining room of his small practice on Florida's Treasure Coast.


  • Minal Hajratwala explores Indian diaspora (San Francisco Chronicle)
    When Minal Hajratwala was growing up in Michigan, "a shy brown kid" in an upscale white suburb, she often felt invisible, "culturally isolated." This was in the 1980s, long before "Slumdog Millionaire" became a box office and Oscar-winning phenomenon, long...


  • Advance owner buys Gandhi?s effects (Novato Advance)
    Dr. Vijay Mallya, owner of the Marinscope chain of newspapers that includes the Novato Advance, got worldwide attention last week for a successful bid of $1.8 million at an auction for five items owned by Mahatma Gandhi, including Gandhi?s pocket watch, metal bowl and plate, sandals and his iconic, wire-rimmed eyeglasses.


  • Blind Spot is fatal flaw in a coffee vision (The Buffalo News)
    Apart of me still cannot believe that it ended so badly. Mike and Sally Morin seemingly symbolized a new Buffalo. It was a place where a young generation of entrepreneurs would chart a progressive course for the city. The bright, sociable, ambitious couple opened a business that melded community and commerce and made Buffalo seem better and friendlier.


  • Elevator Accidents in Public Housing Are Frequent, and Costly (New York Times)
    A review of records shows about 300 injuries in elevator-related mishaps since 2001, leading to millions of dollars in settlements.


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