eyeglasses News Archive

31-May-2009

 

  • Coming to the Living Room: 3-D TV (Time Magazine)
    Electronics manufacturers in search of the next big thing turn to 3-D technology -- and you might still need to wear the funky eyeglasses


  • Neighbors Saying Farewells to Bookshop They Couldn?t Save (New York Times)
    Morningside Bookshop, an independent store that operated for 50 years near its landlord, Columbia University, fell too far behind in its rent to remain open.


  • If you can, smile at DMV (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
    I've always suspected the reason most people aren't smiling in their driver's license photo is because their facial muscles are numb from having to wait a couple hours at the DMV.


  • IN MY LIBRARY: LARRY KING (New York Post)
    Larry King's gotten a lot of "gets" in his time -- Frank Sinatra and Vladimir Putin among them -- but there's one man who continues to elude him. "I've always wanted to interview J.D. Salinger," he tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman. "Every time...


  • GEORGEA KOVANIS: Accessories shop moves to Birmingham (Detroit Free Press)
    The Annex, an interesting accessories shop that carries arty bangles and broaches you won't find in department stores, has moved from Royal Oak to new digs in Birmingham. The reason? It needed more foot traffic, says Annie LeBlanc, one of the owners.


  • Life and death in Narcoland (Toronto Star)
    The discovery of nine human heads last November in a seedy east-end neighbourhood ? Granjas Familiares de Matamoros ? was a barbaric nadir in Mexico's drug wars.


  • Tanit Phoenix (AskMen)
    Why Is She Famous? Tanit Phoenix is the answer to one of life's most difficult questions: Which celebrity would you most like to go naked skydiving with?


  • The Way It Was: 'Professor' could play, too (The Washington Times)
    The Yankees and Red Sox were involved in a three-way struggle for the American League pennant on the last weekend of the 1948 season when Boston fans at Fenway Park began taunting New York icon Joe DiMaggio with a fraternal refrain. "He's better than his brother Joe/Dom-i-nic Di-Mag-gio," they chanted over and over. Well, no, not hardly. But little brother Dom, who died of pneumonia at his home ...


  • Garden City Library Collection Of Eyeglasses (Garden City News)
    The Garden City Public Library is a collection site for used eyeglasses for the Recycle for Sight Program, which is run by a local Lions Club. The Lions Club has expressed its appreciation to the Library for continuing to serve as an ongoing collection site for the Recycle for Sight Program. A box is provided for the used eyeglass collection near the interior doors of the Library.


  • Good customer service lifts your spirits (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
    Something's got into the folks at Wells Fargo Bank. Like, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Or something in the drinking water. At the very least a corporate "come to Jesus" meeting.


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