Word: eyesight
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...largely peripheral. Yes, Video Boy devotes half an hour less to playtime than did the pre-TV child. No, TV does not discourage reading, but if anything, stimulates it. Yes, TV does help develop such prereading skills as scanning from left to right. No, normal viewing does not impair eyesight. Yes, TV has replaced reading and storytelling sessions with the parent. No, TV has no significant effect on school work; viewing has not encroached on school-related activities, but merely supplanted the time that used to be devoted to comic books and radio...
...early life in Hungary, where he was born in 1847, is shrouded in obscurity. What is known is that when he left home at 17, he first tried to enlist in the army-anybody's army. But one nation after another turned him down because of his poor eyesight and frail physique. Only the Union Army, desperate for recruits in the Civil War, was willing to take...
...time for poets generally. There was a war on. In 1942, Lowell tried to serve first in the Army and then the Navy, only to be turned down by both as physically unfit (eyesight alone would have disqualified him). As the war went on, he changed his mind, or the war changed its character. When the draft called, he refused to report and wrote a letter to the President to explain why. He wrote not as a dissident citizen to the all-powerful President of the U.S. but haughtily as a Boston Lowell to a Hudson Valley Roosevelt: "You will...
Despite the accumulated lore, UHS has only been sued once in the last 15 years. A medical school student sued the University because he lost his eyesight when doctors were trying to save his life from a serious infection. The case was settled out of court...
...blind, however, comprise only a half of one percent of the nation's handicapped. There are those who are not legally blind, but who nonetheless have poor eyesight and experience difficulty reading. For these people, Cramer's technique makes talking book programs more practical. WGBH in Boston is considering broadcasting novels -- best sellers and popular mysteries -- in compressed speech two days each week...