Word: eyeful
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...want to get a sense of the future, take a look at Achieva College Prep Centers, an education company. Give Achieva your child beginning in freshman year of high school, and the staff will help your teen pick classes, clubs, community-service projects and summer jobs, all with an eye toward creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from a Gap ad, will even make a teenager, as adviser Tilden...
Much of what has been written about LASIK has hyped the procedure without addressing the potential risks. I had LASIK done two years ago, and my vision improved afterward. But gradually it deteriorated, and the dry-eye syndrome set in. Luckily my vision can still be corrected with glasses, which I wear for driving and movie viewing. Look long and hard before you leap. The facts can be disguised by the enthusiasm. ELAINE ULACKAS Vero Beach...
...excellent job in presenting both sides of laser eye surgery. As an optometrist, I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not worth it. CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu...
TURNING A BLIND EYE...
...cosmic cataclysms are known as gamma-ray bursts-- distant explosions, invisible to the human eye, that in seconds release more energy than our own little sun will put out in its 10 billion-year lifetime. Though astronomers have studied hundreds of gamma bursts, they have never determined what they are. Soon that may change. Last week astrophysicists from around the world gathered in Huntsville, Ala., to discuss the gamma-ray phenomenon and plan for the launch of a satellite that will turn the sharpest eye ever on the puzzling blasts...