Word: hyperopia
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...Brooks, Bush has been influenced largely by his experience in the business world: “Like many executives, he believes that the higher you go, the further into the future you should see.”Perhaps there is another reason for the president’s hyperopia: By his own admission, Bush rarely opens up a newspaper. Of course when this rare glimpse into Bush’s psyche was revealed in the fall of 2003, commentators almost universally saw it as a bad thing, but there might be something to be said for steering clear...
...mixed blessing, clumsy, detracting from appearance, a sign of age. Contact lenses are not ideal either: often difficult to manage, uncomfortable to wear, easy to lose. Is there any other option? Some ophthalmologists now think there is. They say two common vision problems-near- and farsightedness (myopia and hyperopia)-can be corrected or eased with surgery that reshapes the cornea, the eye's outer covering...
...found aura of presidential dignity, a blend of artless good humor and consummate professional skill. The impression was heightened by his birthday-week decision to wear plastic-rimmed spectacles, which make him look older, instead of the contact lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked for all the world like a genial Foxy Grandpa...
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