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...severed. Like ordinary light, laser beams pass through transparent substances but are absorbed by darker, opaque materials. Thus they flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes in the retina to ease the pressure of glaucoma. They also penetrate translucent skin to vaporize skin cancers, or tattoos that out-live the patient's enthusiasm for such decoration. Lasers are being used in data pro- cessing to heat tiny, closely spaced spots on magnetic film, thus altering the magnetization and increasing the bits of information that...
...Video Boy" [Jan. 26] prompts me to write to tell you how far-reaching are the influences of "the red and white jour nal." I have for several years been conducting research on a glaucoma-like eye enlargement in birds. A TIME article, "Those Tired Children" [Nov. 6, 1964] prompted me to try subjecting chicks to continuous TV. After eight weeks, the birds seemed to be addicted to whatever was showing, and their eyes were markedly abnormal: 20% larger than those of birds reared under continuous incandescent light, and over 30% larger than normal eyes. What this exposure...
...MMPI attempts to inventory mental health in the same objective way that a physical examination undertakes to discover indications of glaucoma or venereal disease. It involves no greater invasion of privacy. The questions the MMPI asks (about religion, sex, mental and physical health, and many other matters) are not designed for, and do not constitute, a religious, medical or psychological test for office or other employment...
Many eye surgeons have learned to correct detachment of the retina by putting a plastic girdle around the eyeball and squeezing it back into shape. And Dr. Stone has implanted plastic tubes in the eyes of glaucoma patients at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to remove the accumulation of fluid that causes high pressure inside the eyeball-and eventually blindness...
...Viet Nam; Robert J. Kiphuth, 72, Yale's retired swimming coach whose devotion to physical fitness has made him one of its leading spokesmen; Annie D. Wauneka, 53, a Navajo Indian who has spent her life teaching her people hygiene and helping them to overcome tuberculosis, dysentery and glaucoma. · · · "My fireworks are built in," Comedian Danny Kaye, 50, told a questioner at a July 4 party in Moscow. His Russian hosts were beginning to get the message. On hand for a Moscow film festival, the perennial pixy was soon romping and rolling his way into youngsters...