Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buckley beams. He is hearing his favorite sound. Despite all his reservations about the bureaucratic process, he is upbeat. "They've taken a lot of the fun out of it," he says quietly, watching the black water roiling into white foam as it cascades over the steep rock cataract, "but it's still definitely worth doing...
...from a million spent matches. He wants to turn surplus against itself -- not in the friendly way of Kurt Schwitters or Robert Rauschenberg but with real bloody-mindedness. A Million Miles Away posits a world in which things are carried along, bobbing like corks, on a gross, value-free cataract of media imagery. The waves of magazines undulate with a glutinous, twining rhythm, and their movement seems irresistible: they are going to take over the gallery first, and then the world. Only the zebra seems above it all; but then, it cannot read...
...about 40. The pupil shrinks, reducing the amount of light reaching the retina. An 80-year- old's retina receives only about a sixth of the light that a 20-year-old's does. The lens hardens and clouds. More than half of those 60 and older have some cataract formation...
...Tijuana alone (pop. 1.3 million), there are 18 plastic surgeons and a range of other specialists among some 2,000 registered doctors and 1,700 dentists. Their listings take up 44 pages in the city telephone directory. From a simple dental filling to major reconstructive plastic surgery to a cataract operation, almost every health need imaginable is available just across the border. A major part of the appeal: prices that are about one-third to one-half of those charged in the U.S. "Americans are looking for bargains, and we are offering them," says Tijuana Optician Francisco Fandino Montero, whose...
When President Chiang Ching-kuo left Taipei's Veterans General Hospital last week after a cataract operation, the Taiwan government was characteristically stingy with details about his health. Unlike President Reagan, whose battle with colon cancer was reported extensively, Chiang has the luxury of stepping out of--or into--the public spotlight whenever he pleases with little fear of protest. In fact, though his country is suffering a period of quiet political and economic unrest, the 75-year-old leader's personal popularity has remained remarkably intact. "The man is a symbol of stability, and he has managed to maintain...