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Gund, who has been blind since 1970, began losing his sight in his late 20s because of a degenerative disease of the retina with no known cure. Since then, the Gunds have been active in funding research for a cure...
...true: smoke does get in your eyes. A pack or more a day of cigarettes can double a smoker's odds of developing macular degeneration, a disease of the retina that can lead to blindness. SMOKING depletes the body of vital nutrients that may protect eyes from the disease...
...professional liar or a power fetishist--to go into politics in the first place.The conventional rules of hypocrisy have been modernized by the principles of television--life as a continuously temporary hallucination. Just as an image on the screen five minutes ago is only a memory on the retina and has no necessary connection to the image on the screen right now, so a politician's moral position five minutes ago, or five years ago, does not have to conform to his opinion now. History as recorded by television is like Heraclitus' river: You cannot step in the same stream...
RETIRING. KIRBY PUCKETT, 35, the Minnesota Twins' All-Star smiling outfielder and all-around class act; because of irreversible damage to the retina; in Minneapolis...
...theory is that the light that is transmitted back through the retina causes the production of melatonin," says Catlin. "There is some feeling, although it is not proven, that melatonin can sometimes counteract depression...