Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enough of this undirected philosophizing, I hear you saying. Put your money where your mouth is, and then remove it and somehow paste it onto this page so the readers can read it. The headline catcher this week is Phillip Berrigan. Berrigan first stepped into the limelight as an anti...
Another teach-in on nuclear power and the world arms race will begin at Tufts at 7:30 p.m. in Goddard Chapel. Speakers at this teach-in will include Sidney Lens and Harvey Wasserman. The teach-in will include workshops on Saturday in Eaton Hall at Tufts; topics for the...
This is welcome news for the aged, for whom cataract removal is one of the most common operations, and one of the most ancient. Cataracts can, of course, form at any stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But...
...advanced cases, the patient is left nearly blind. As Hollywood Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass, 68, who has had two lenses implanted, recalls: "Your lenses turn into agate, and you're forced to look through stone." Removing these shadowed lenses allows light to enter the eye but creates another problem. The lens of the normal eye focuses the light rays; without it, vision becomes hopelessly blurred. Under such circumstances, the patient has only a few options: thick glasses, contact lenses or the artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images...
...lens implant provides vision almost matching that of the natural lens without these troubling side effects. Moreover, the plastic lenses, available in a variety of designs and optical powers, can be chosen before implantation to correct other vision problems, including near-and farsightedness. By picking the correct power of the implant lens, New York Medical College Ophthalmologist Miles Galin, who has done more than 2,000 implants, is often able to reassure patients before surgery: 'You'll probably see better without glasses than you did before the cataract developed...