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TODAY: Laser surgery or implants to correct near- and farsightedness...
TOMORROW: Permanent lens implants to correct vision while leaving the cornea intact...
...your listing of key issues facing Syria [WORLD, Oct. 18], you noted, "In talks with Israel, Syria seeks [water] rights to Lake Tiberius and the Jordan River." The correct name is Lake Tiberias, as it is named after the famous ancient city of Tiberias and not after Tiberius the Roman Emperor. Most readers may be more familiar with the name Sea of Galilee. It is also called Lake of Gennesar in ancient sources, after the settlement on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Galilee. If names mean anything, then these clearly connect this body of water with geographic areas...
Baloney. "Alternative medicine" is merely a politically correct term for what used to be called quackery. Any alternative therapy that can be proved valid will swiftly be incorporated into mainstream medicine. Any "medicine" that is based on myth, irrationality and deception will eventually be rejected. "Once the public finds out what homeopathy is," predicts Dr. John Renner, head of the National Council for Reliable Health Information, "once they find out that chlorophyll is necessary for plant life but not human life, they're going to turn on these alternative groups...
George W. Bush's critics are crowing over his performance in a foreign policy quiz. TIME Daily invites all those smarty-pants, and our readers, to test their working knowledge of eight situations crucial to U.S. foreign policy. (Click on each question to get the correct answer...