Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leave a bomb on the side of the road," the staff sergeant says, "we're gonna blow up their f---in' road" - but way harder to accomplish. As he walks toward the contaminated area wearing a heavily insulated space suit on a 130-degree day, he catches the corner-eyesight of a man about to use a cell phone. The spaceman turns and runs. Too late: BOOM! The bomb detonates and so does he. Blood seeps down his helmet visor like red rain on the wrong side of a car windshield...
Harvard researchers discovered a new form of eyesight for one species of River House resident when they found a special type of cell in mice that detects upward motion...
...lulled into a false sense of security. As soon as you see the rapper’s eyes go all spiral-like and the dancers’ colorful clothes turn to black and white (which is a very cool effect, if you don’t value your eyesight) get the hell away from that screen. For once, the duo that makes up Gnarls Barkley—Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway)—appear in the video in person, and not as ink blots (“Crazy”) or as fleas...
DIED Cancer took the eyesight of Grammy-nominated rocker Jeff Healey before he turned 1. So at 3 he started playing the guitar on his lap, a style that became his trademark. As a teen, he gigged in Toronto clubs before starting his best-known group, the Jeff Healey Band. The blues-rock trio, who got a boost from their role in the Patrick Swayze film Road House, made it big with the achy, affecting 1989 hit Angel Eyes. On the side, Healey played jazz and deejayed a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio show drawing on his collection...
...techniques working in Himalayan communities in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and other parts of the region. Each cataract operation costs only $15, and the ready-made eyeglasses that he provides, premade for a village-wide range of strengths, are $3. In the skilled hands of Tabin and his team, the eyesight of a village is restored in days at a tiny cost per person...