Word: eyesight
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...waded deep into politically charged--and physically dangerous--territory, for example, traveling to Bosnia to visit with victims of land mines in her campaign against the devices. "She wanted to know everything," says FRANJO KRESIC, who lost both legs and had his eyesight damaged by land mines. "How I survived, how my wife helped me survive, how we have coped with it. At first I was paralyzed--it was a big thing to have a princess in your home. But after a while, I felt as if we had known each other for a long time. She wanted...
Last Thursday there were three of them, one apparently dressed as a woman. They stationed themselves along the Ben Yehuda promenade in the heart of west Jerusalem, where residents and tourists pack the pedestrian mall to shop and sip drinks at outdoor cafes. Within eyesight of one another, the three detonated their bombs packed with 4 lbs. of explosives, filled with nails and screws...
...denizens of the '50s and '60s who so enjoyed foreign films are now in our 50s and 60s. For people with declining eyesight who rent videos, subtitles are almost impossible to read on a television screen, yellow backed or not. Can't someone in the vast moviemaking industry devise more readable subtitles? CYNTHIA SHUMAN Dublin, California
...professor's age, meanwhile, takes two factors into account: the eyesight and the probability of tenure. Older profs can't see as well as younger ones; moreover, they are more likely to be jaded and tenured and thus less likely to care about a trivial 20-year-old snoozing. Hey, their research grants are still coming in, so it's no skin off their backs...
...every student knows, should you want to have any eyesight left when you receive your diploma, you cannot rely on Harvard lighting during late night study seesions. Instead, students troop to the Coop and plunk down their $20 for the halogen lamp. This is hardly an exaggeration: the number of halogen lamps per room on campus is certainly beyond the n+1 ratio...