eyeglasses News Archive

11-May-2009

 

  • Diseases of vision affect twice as many women as men (Baltimore Sun)
    Twice as many women as men are diagnosed with vision-threatening diseases each year, according to the National Eye Institute.


  • Vision for the world: Robbinsdale man seeks to help Chileans (Crystal - Robbinsdale Sun-Post)
    Gary Tonsager has stacks of boxes under the desk at his Maple Grove Pearle Vision store, containing about 600 pair of donated eyeglasses. "I have a month to collect another 400," he said.


  • Our views: NASA's brightest star (Florida Today)
    Ever since humans stood upright and gazed at the night sky, we?ve been awed by the heavens. How was the universe born? What makes it tick? Are we alone in its vastness?


  • Dom DiMaggio dies at 92 (Journal Inquirer)
    BOSTON ? Dominic DiMaggio, the bespectacled Boston Red Sox center fielder who made his own mark on the major leagues despite playing in the shadow of Hall of Fame older brother Joe and teammate Ted Williams, died early today at his Massachusetts home. He was 92.


  • Seeing the Mother from Hell Through ?Lesbian Eyeglasses?; Monica Strambini?s ?Gasoline? (indieWIRE)
    It's just not Lenni's day. First her scathing, stiletto-shod madre pops in at the gas station slash-coffee-bar that Lenni ( Regina Orioli ) runs with her lover, Stella ( Maya Sansa ). This, ahem, awkward visit prompts a nasty argument, after which said mama cuffs Lenni on the ear ("You see?


  • HITTING HOME (New York Post)
    NEARLY 10 years after graduating, "Ameri can Idol" favorite Adam Lambert went back to the San Diego high school where, he told a TV reporter, he was the "weird kid." On a 12-hour, stretch-limousine tour of his home town that took him from TV and...


  • Miracle baby (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
    BELGRADE - Peering through her new quarter-size eyeglasses, 14-month-old Rhoby Combs held onto her mom?s neck with one hand and reached out her other.


  • Harry Caray's to open at Navy Pier (Chicago Sun-Times)
    Those big Harry Caray eyeglasses will pop up at Navy Pier this summer, thanks to action Friday by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority. The restaurant, named after the famous Cubs announcer, will replace the former Joe's Be-Bop. The board of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which runs Navy Pier, approved Harry Caray's over competing bids.


  • Dom DiMaggio, brother of Joe, dies at age 92 (Reno Gazette-Journal)
    BOSTON (AP) ? Dominic DiMaggio, the bespectacled Boston Red Sox center fielder who made his own mark on the major leagues despite playing in the shadow of Hall of Fame brother Joe and teammate Ted Williams, died early Friday at his Massachusetts home. He was 92.


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