eyeglasses News Archive

25-Sep-2007

 

  • Retiring? Be sure to plan for health care costs (Telegraph-Forum)
    One thing that might not be in your retirement plans: an annual cashectomy. That's the amount you'll have to shell out each year for medical care. If you don't plan carefully for health care costs, your retirement dreams could end up in the emergency room.


  • OptiOpia's Founder and Chairman Saul Griffith is Named MacArthur Fellow (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
    ALAMEDA, Calif.----A San Francisco Bay Area-based start-up had a good day Tuesday: one of its founders won a "genius grant" and was declared a "prodigy of invention in service of the world community."


  • Reality show looks for model contestants (Miami Herald)
    The 21-year-old from rural Virginia had legs up to her chin and a nose so small a good sneeze might shake it loose. ''I live on a farm. I have tons of cows,'' Holly Kiser told executives Monday, the first of two days of open casting calls for Bravo network's upcoming reality show, Make Me A Supermodel. ``It's like two hours from the nearest mall.''


  • Suspect fires lawyer, wins delay (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
    The arraignment of Mark Padgett, who police said tried to kill his ex-wife with an SKS assault rifle, was postponed Monday when the Fort Thomas man abruptly fired his lawyer.


  • Sadie gets a team of her own (The Globe and Mail)
    When the girl, who has Down syndrome, wasn't allowed to play, mom went into action


  • Genius Grant Winners Announced: Squid Labs Cofounder Gets $500K (Wired News)
    Squid Labs' Saul Griffith is among 24 luminaries to be handed a MacArthur Fellowship -- a $500,000 award for innovators, more commonly referred to as the "genius grant."


  • Intriguing Richmond art gallery worth the visit (Capital Weekly)
    Mention oils, acrylics or watercolors and you think of artwork by Andrew Wyeth.


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