Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike such drugs as barbiturates and opiates, which affect the nervous system, alcohol can attack virtually any of the body's cells. It can cause stunted growth, distorted faces, poor eyesight, learning disabilities and hyperactivity. In the recently published book The Broken Cord (Harper & Row; $18.95), author Michael Dorris tells the heartbreaking story of his adopted son Adam, whose Sioux parents died of alcohol abuse. Adam was institutionalized and diagnosed as retarded before he turned three. At five, he still wore diapers, could not count consecutively or even identify colors. "Adam's birthdays are reminders for me," writes Dorris...
...Wrong," says Baker. "The thing is getting them in. They're smart as hell. Their eyesight and hearing are incredible, about ten times better than a human's. The trick is in getting them where you want them, on your terms. Then you control the situation, not them. You have the options. Pull the trigger or don't. It doesn't matter once you've got them where you want them. The important thing is knowing that it's in your hands, that you can do whatever you determine is in your interest to do. I don't know, though...
...Spotting a lucrative way to diversify, about half the nation's 24,500 optometrists -- specialists who examine eyes and prescribe corrective lenses -- offer some form of eye-improvement therapy, also called vision training. The premise is simple: while eyesight is largely determined by genetics, seeing is an acquired skill, developed through practice, much like walking or swimming. Says Richard Kavner, a New York City optometrist: "The goal is to improve faulty connections between the brain and eye muscle." Common exercises include walking on a balance beam while reading a chart, completing connect-the-dot pictures and touching points in patterns...
...battle with the DEA sparked the case. Randall gets his daily prescribed dose of marijuana from a pharmacy in Washington that is supplied by a federal farm in Mississippi. He believes the evidence before his eyes. "It's been twelve years," says Randall, who was expected to lose his eyesight by 1977, "and I haven't gone blind...
...good many people do not want it done. In the regular processes of human cruelty, nobody is arguing against competition or any of the subtler forms of combat. It's just that using brains to extinguish brains seems a little direct. Developing balance to knock somebody off-balance, honing eyesight to administer shiners, marshaling memory and ingenuity and audacity and dexterity -- and coordinating all of them against themselves, and against coordination -- seems self-destructive to a society...