Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall term of your freshman year is like a cataract--it steadily creeps over you, encasing you in academics and activities, until finally you're so blinded you cannot see a world beyond Harvard Yard. Your behavior changes: your gaze becomes glazed like the Wild Man of Borneo, your feet almost automatically head for Lamont Library, you don't think you have even a few moments to spare to run to the Coop or see friends, and your whole world revolves around the Union and the Science Center. It's entirely possible to wake up on a Monday and realize...
...earliest researchers to express concern over microwaves was a New York ophthalmologist, Dr. Milton Zaret, who warned more than a decade ago that even low-level exposure could produce a peculiar type of cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
...orientation in space; the eye floats in an amniotic fluid of light), and their intricate play between air colors in the water and the solider rafts of lilies crossing them like clouds. Toward the end of his life, as his vision degenerated-first, after a series of primitive cataract operations, distorting his sight toward yellow, and at last toward blue-Monet rarely left his garden; but then, he did not need to. He had constructed a symbolist heaven on his front doorstep, and (since nature and culture fuse in the hortus conclusus-the enclosed garden-of paradise) the circle...
...restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with limited peripheral vision. Contact lenses produce less distortion and permit peripheral vision but can be irritating to the eyes, difficult to insert and easy to lose-especially for elderly or arthritic cataract patients who are practically sightless without their lenses...
...near-and farsightedness. By picking the correct power of the implant lens, New York Medical College Ophthalmologist Miles Galin, who has done more than 2,000 implants, is often able to reassure patients before surgery: 'You'll probably see better without glasses than you did before the cataract developed...