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...Chopra's news on pain - desire's unfortunate partner down here in the phenomenal world - is equally cheering. In How to Know God, Chopra explains that for one who is enlightened, "a rotten tooth, a tumor or a detached retina" can each be seen as "a cluster of photons, a warped image made of light ... My identity floats in a quantum fog as photons wink in and out of existence. Observing these shifting patterns, I feel no attachment to any of them. They come and go; I am not even troubled by having no permanent home. It is enough...
...painting, he started to wonder seriously about photography. And by the early '70s, he had come upon dye-transfer printing, a method that produces deeply saturated color. This is why, when he makes a picture of a rooftop sign that reads PEACHES!, the orange letters just about sear your retina...
...That early cultivation has ensured diving supremacy for the People's Republic. But the impact of thousands upon thousands of dives has left many Chinese divers with permanent eye injuries. After detaching a retina, Hu Jia, a Chinese gold medalist in Athens, told the Chinese press that he would nonetheless dedicate himself to striking gold in Beijing "unless my eyes are really blind." He ended up missing the 2008 Olympic squad because of injury...
...upcoming 80s and 90s house dances, and then outdoes itself with the special seizure effects. The only problem is that the effects come too late to save the first half of the video, which drags on slightly longer than necessary. Ultimately, the FX may be worth the retina pain. Although it seems random at first, the psychedelic backdrop moves in time and in sync with the artists, scrambles your mind if you watch it in conjunction with the choreography, and will leave no doubt in your spasmodic brain that Gnarls Barkley knows visual effects. —Jenny...
...prove - first in test tubes and then in live animals - that the procedure was safe enough for humans. Finally a young man named Robert Johnson got the first shot. A team of U.K. doctors announced earlier this month, that they put a needle through Johnson's eye, into his retina, to replace the faulty gene that had been blinding him for years...