Word: eyesight
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HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU Not only has breast-feeding been shown to be good for children, but also, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, infants who have been on the breast even have better eyesight than those who have not. Researchers found too that the fatty acid in breast milk that contributes to this is present in such oily fish as sardines. And pregnant women who ate oily fish gave birth to kids with better eyesight than those who didn...
Back home, Schlesinger plunged into work on what became his Pulitzer prize-winning The Age of Jackson (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy Administration, A Thousand Days). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the oss. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...
...long journey, it's space station commander Jim Shepherd, or "Shep" as he is known to all, including wife Beth and Russian ground controllers (who pronounce it "Ship"). Shepherd, 51, joined the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, then the only route to commanding a space mission. Poor eyesight ended that dream, so he became a frogman and used that as a stepping-stone to the Astronaut Corps, but as a mission specialist, not a commander - someone qualified to ride the space shuttle...
...Back home, Schlesinger plunged into work on what became his Pulitzer prize- winning "The Age of Jackson" (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy administration, "A Thousand Days"). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the OSS. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...
...himself daily insulin shots since he was 10, watching his diet and constantly monitoring his blood sugar. But the severity of his disease continued to make him prone to seizures and life-threatening infections. He never finished his senior year of high school because of health complications, and failing eyesight forced him to stop working at McDonald's after 1981. He has never since been strong enough to hold...