eyeglasses News Archive

25-May-2008

 

  • Kids Think Glasses Make Others Look Smart, Honest (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
    FRIDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Children think other youngsters who wear glasses look smarter and are more honest than those who don't wear glasses, according to a U.S. study of 80 children.


  • Summer style made easy on these Web sites (New York Daily News)
    Are you ready for summer? The world of online shopping is. The Web's major retailers and shopping sites have amped up their content, with more features for the fashion savvy. Here we highlight the season's new spate of 'net exclusives.


  • Another woman in my life packs up to leave (Lancaster Eagle-Gazette)
    We come into this world without possessions and exit it the same way. At the end of his life, my father had a pair of eyeglasses, a hearing aid and a ring. The ring went into Natalie's jewelry box, the glasses to the Lions Club and the hearing aid to House of Hearing on East Main Street, which could maybe use the parts.


  • Halfway Park Days offers both the traditional and the unexpected (The Herald-Mail)
    Its not every day you can buy hand-painted Vietnamese tunic and pant sets at a park. But at Halfway Park Days at Martin L. Marty Snook Memorial Park, patrons can find traditional festival fare and a bit of the unexpected as well. Vendors sprawl the length of the walking trail and beyond, offering at turns silver jewelry, decorative outhouses, magic shows, window estimates and fried chicken.


  • Cape Fear Profile: Scott Perry enlists idea for homeland defense (The Fayetteville Observer)
    Scott Perry tends to speak in a hybrid of corporate and military boardroom language. The retired Green Beret talks about the procurement-acquisition process, providing infrastructure and technology requirements and educating people on Capitol Hill on defense security and intelligence initiatives.


  • Eyeglasses, binoculars, instant replay? What do umps need? (The Record)
    Yankee pitcher Mike Mussina apparently had a sign over his locker last night that said: "Balls that hit the yellow steps are usually homers. Not tonight."


  • Thousands of acres are destroyed every year (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
    Each year, thousands of acres of wildland and many homes are destroyed by fires that can erupt at any time of the year from a variety of causes, including arson, lightning and debris burning. Adding to the fire hazard is the growing number of people living in new communities built in areas that were once wildland.


  • Man with Down syndrome touches worshipers with sermon (Birmingham News)
    It was one of the shortest sermons some of those gathered at Corinth Baptist Church had ever heard. But at the end, elderly women in the front pews were wiping tears from their eyes. The guest preacher got a standing ovation after he stepped down from the pulpit.


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