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...same as the glasses used to correct nearsightedness (the ability to see nearby objects better than those that are far away), farsightedness (the ability to see objects that are farther away somewhat better than those that are nearby) or astigmatism (a kind of warping of the outer layers of the eye). Because of the more complicated optics involved, you need prescription lenses or contacts to compensate for any of the three conditions. Drugstore reading glasses, which contain two lenses of identical magnification, won't help if one eye is significantly weaker than the other. Nor will they help you drive...
Clinton made mistakes early on as a campaigner, many of which came from trying to pretend that her birthplace of Chicago was an outer borough of New York City. It bordered on the sacrilegious to don a Yankees cap when she had been a well-known Chicago Cubs fan. It remained such a toxic moment that she couldn't risk taking the D train to the Subway Series to join in the purest of Big Apple moments. Rather than the usual grip and grin, she embarked on a listening tour, looking at times like Margaret Mead visiting the Samoans...
...with cruel scratches. The wooden bird perched upon her head in both pictures looks robotic and menacing; since the bird she chose is native to New England, I wondered if the photographs represent an intersection of Cuba and Massachusetts that Campos-Pons perhaps has trouble reconciling. In the two outer photographs, the birds gaze out quizzically, as if asking you why you're so troubled by their treatment of the patient figure of the artist...
...November 1998, but this is the first crew to live there, and if all goes according to plan, they will be replaced by a succession of crews with no end. By the time the station wears out in 10 to 25 years, there should be another. Permanent habitation of outer space is the goal...
...have the International Space Station, first proposed by President Reagan as Space Station Freedom 15 years ago, and now grown into a sort of outer-space League of Nations in order to contain costs...