Word: eyesight
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...decades later, his vision of the future was essentially unchanged except that he had become increasingly worried about the potential effects of technology. Many today share similar beliefs, assuming, for example, that lives spent in front of computers will rob humans of fully functional arms and legs or proper eyesight. Or that genetic engineering will lead to such calamities as a world populated by Bill Gates clones...
Fact: no one will be impressed with our technology. We will have corrected faulty eyesight by wearing magnifying lenses made of glass or plastic. We will have traveled by burning a petroleum by-product called gasoline. We will have produced children by having sexual intercourse. Ours, we will be told, was a primitive era. How can we expect to be taken seriously, we will be asked, when our high school physics class did not even teach string theory...
...ended with a bended-knee proposal and a civil ceremony under a giant floral arch that could have come from Godzilla's funeral. Friends, this is why God gave us eyesight. It was a gross spectacle in too many ways to name, degrading, if not to the 50 lovelies who showed up--who after all got a national TV debut with only a 2% chance of having to marry some desperate Croesus--then to every other woman who chooses a mate. (Not to mention men: try pitching a special called Who Wants to Marry a Sweet Guy with a Decent...
...peckii needs excellent vision in order to prevent its own extinction. "Sex pheromones from females probably help males locate the general neighborhood of a wasp," says Ehmer. But the male, who lives less than 6 hrs. after taking flight, must rely on his eyesight to zero in quickly on that wasp and its female parasite so he can perpetuate his species before he expires...
...about to leave us. For Grunwald, the beginning of such a loss came seven years ago, when a routine examination revealed that he was legally blind in his left eye and was one of roughly 15 million Americans who suffer from macular degeneration, a gradual diminishing of eyesight (often caused by age) for which there is no cure...