eyeglasses News Archive

02-Nov-2008

 

  • IT'S DAYLIGHT RAVING TIME (New York Post)
    LOOK, now that we're back to Eastern Standard Time, I know Daylight Sav ing Time is a wonderful thing. I know for sure it's a wonderful thing. I know it because I'm told Daylight Saving Time is a wonderful thing. It saves daylight. It saves time...


  • Does Palin's maverick label still stick? (AP via Yahoo! News)
    A loyal Democrat, Kenny Powers never shared Sarah Palin's conservative politics. But the United Way organizer confesses a fondness for the governor who paired a folksy charm with scorn for Alaska's Republican old guard.


  • Politics aside, elections boost business (Springfield News-Sun)
    No matter what your party affiliation, a presidential election can be good for business.


  • Trick-or-treaters can help collect eyeglasses for Lions (Wisconsin State Journal)
    This Halloween, students from 32 Madison-area elementary schools won't just ask for candy when trick-or-treating ? they'll collect used eyewear as well. Madison Central Lions, a service organization, will partner with the Madison School District to bring about Madison's first Sight Nighttoday ? where elementary students will collect used eyewear for distribution to underprivileged people in ...


  • An odyssey, of sorts, and scenes of how racism begins to end (Baltimore Sun)
    Janet's World W hen I was about 5, I overheard my grandmother telling my mother that "the coloreds" were moving into Baldwin, Long Island, and that a lot of her neighbors were talking about selling their homes. She used that hushed, conspiratorial tone that naturally puts all children within earshot on aural alert.


  • Littlejohn guilty in kidnap case (Queens Chronicle)
    ?He is short and stocky,? said the defense attorney, Jason Russo, pointing to his client, Darryl Littlejohn, who wore eyeglasses and an un-tucked, wrinkled dress shirt, and jeans.


  • Justices Greet Diva: It?s Ardor in the Court (New York Times)
    Winners of the NEA Opera Honors, the first new awards from the federal government for individual achievement in the arts in 26 years, charmed Supreme Court opera buffs on Friday.


  • Fire departments collecting eyeglasses Oct. 31 (Community Press & Recorder)
    In cooperation with Give the Gift of Sight, a non-profit foundation sponsored by Luxottica Group, the Deerfield Township, Loveland/Symmes, Hamilton Township, Mason and West Chester fire departments will be in the neighborhoods collecting used eyeglasses starting during trick-or-treat hours on Friday, Oct. 31.


  • Vision Correction Procedure Hits a Milestone (Carteret County News-Times)
    (ARA) - More than 150 million Americans, or approximately 50 percent of the U.S. population, require eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct common vision problems. For these people, waking up in bed and reaching over to the nightstand for eye glasses is a normal ritual.


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