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...Wald, who passed away in 1997 at age 90, won his Nobel for discovering how vitamin A works on the molecular level to allow people to see. “Now today, we have therapies to help people who are blind,” said Wald’s former colleague, biology professor John E. Dowling...
...sweet enough to give you a toothache. The wicked step-sisters’ attempts at deceiving the prince are discovered when blood leaks through the too-small shoe. As punishment for their cruelties to Cinderella, pigeons pluck out their eyes. Which begs the question: Is justice blind or just blinding? 4. The Girl Without Hands – Devils, angels and a little girl whose hands are lopped off by her father populate this story. Her hands are replaced with silver before growing back out of pure piety, but she still names her first-born boy Sorrowful. This whole thing...
...when Crockett reopened her eyes, the paper in front of her was blurry and she could not see her teacher, the results of the development of a cyst within a brain tumor. She was declared legally blind two years later...
...some of the questions readers asked [Nov. 26]. In particular, I was alarmed by his lack of support for diplomacy in delicate situations like dealing with Iran. He also revealed arrogance and pomposity when referring to the U.N. as "a useful instrument of American foreign policy." Bolton must be blind and deaf if he thinks that anti-Americanism isn't sweeping the world. If he wants to see real change in the way America is viewed and practical solutions to global tension, he should try civilized diplomacy. And he should never rule out the fact that there are diplomatic solutions...
...Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident left him unable to study larger creatures like birds, and pushed him to study insects. “I can’t understand why most people don’t study ants,” said Wilson, whose book “The Ants?...