Word: eyestraining
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...want a separate, slightly weaker pair of glasses, since most computer screens aren't placed within normal reading range.) Probably the trickiest part of selecting the right pair of reading glasses is making sure the lenses are correctly centered over the eyes. Misalignment can cause headaches and eyestrain. Any qualified eye-care provider can check this for you. Many will even tell you which magnification to look...
...Eyestrain can result from working for long periods without proper lighting. For the Cornell family, natural light comes through a window during the day, and a combination of indirect fluorescent lights and dimmer-controlled direct lighting provides even illumination at night...
...ghost," essayist Susie Bright (author of Sexwise) says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British film historian Richard Dyer, "partly because he has a picture of Alan Ladd in his locker." Well, maybe Mineo was just...sensitive. But even if these interpretations are wrong, they are telling: they indicate how desperate...
...mail: jboshart@fas) demonstrates a fondness for quotes in her .plan as well, but hers also includes a 3-D stereogram, similar to the images found in "Magic Eye" books, that she made with the help of a special program. On the subject of her interesting array of eyestrain-producing letters, numbers, and symbols, Boshart relates, "One time, I was playing around with a script I was writing for my friend that would automatically generate a .plan for him. To test it, I removed my own .plan for the time being. Almost immediately after renaming it, I got a talk...
Consider the screen that many people have no problem looking at during breakfast today--the television screen. We don't have to read text or graphics from it is order to digest the information it provides, so the eyestrain factor is minimized...