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...mark in the second half of Saturday's match, senior striker Will Hench took a quick pass off a free kick from Petruccelli, and fired a laser past Dartmouth's sophomore goalkeeper Ben Gebre-Medhin to give Harvard a 2-1 lead...
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Thank you for the wonderfully balanced article on laser surgery to reshape the cornea and help improve vision [HEALTH, Oct. 11]. As a cornea-trained ophthalmologist who performs LASIK, I am always concerned that patients will have unreasonably high expectations because they have heard only the "good side" of the surgery. Although the results are impressive, we are currently not able to achieve more than a 60% to 70% portion of 20/20 vision because of the range of biological variation in the general population. Not all people correct predictably after a given amount of applied laser energy. Remember, the goal...
...excellent job in presenting both sides of laser eye surgery. As an optometrist, I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not worth it. CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu...
That's the only explanation, he says, for the string of horrible calls. Whether anyone will actually take Puliafito up on his offer--which includes free eye examinations, prescription lenses and laser eye surgery at the New England Eye Center clinic--remains to be seen...