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...simple: while eyesight is largely determined by genetics, seeing is an acquired skill, developed through practice, much like walking or swimming. Says Richard Kavner, a New York City optometrist: "The goal is to improve faulty connections between the brain and eye muscle." Common exercises include walking on a balance beam while reading a chart, completing connect-the-dot pictures and touching points in patterns that are flashed rapidly on a screen. Such training is designed to enhance the eye's focusing speed, depth perception and peripheral vision...
...beam shines mainly on the mayor. Police and federal prosecutors are investigating the latest in a string of embarrassing episodes involving women and drugs that has plagued Barry during his three terms. Three weeks ago, detectives looking into allegations that former District employee Charles | Lewis was selling drugs from his room in a downtown hotel were about to attempt an undercover drug purchase, but they abruptly departed after being informed that the mayor was visiting the suspect. A subsequent search by police of Lewis' room, which was billed to the credit card of a Barry aide, revealed traces of cocaine...
...powerful accelerator in Brookhaven, L.I., to produce and aim a flood of protons at a beryllium metal target. The stupendous collisions of protons slamming into the barrier shattered atomic nuclei, releasing new particles, including neutrinos. The particles then hit a wall of steel that absorbed all but a single beam, which carried billions of neutrinos into a + detector. Studying the debris at 3 o'clock one morning, Lederman found the footprints of a high-energy muon. Not only had the physicists developed a useful tool for exploring matter by means of neutrino streams, but they had also discovered...
...orderly. It cannot, therefore, catch the lovely mayhem of gymnastics, the dizzying lyricism of a four-square circus in which everything is happening at once: a Japanese girl running furiously toward the | vault, even as an East German prances through her floor exercises, a Guatemalan teeters on the balance beam, a Bulgarian attacks the parallel bars. The first time one sees a gymnast leap, one's heart flies with...
...days later, Silivas avenged her disappointment, harvesting three golds and a bronze in the apparatus finals. Shushunova took a silver and bronze; Boginskaya a gold and silver. Phoebe Mills claimed the only gymnastics medal for the U.S., sharing the bronze for the balance beam with Rumania's Gabriela Potorac. In a final count of coveted 10s, both Silivas and Shushunova tied the record seven scored by Rumania's Nadia Comaneci...