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Although medical experts are skeptical about the effectiveness of vision therapy, hundreds of thousands of Americans have spent big money in the hope of sharpening their sight. A six-month program of weekly 45-minute sessions can cost as much as $3,000. Believers range from anxious parents who want to better their youngsters' academic performance to pro-baseball players like Yankee slugger Don Mattingly who thinks vision exercises help him keep his eye on the ball. Joe Fugaro of East Brunswick, N.J., credits the treatment with improving his trapshooting. "You need to keep your eyes tuned up," he says...
...legacy remains. Time praised the women of the Bush family for popularizing dresses that cost "only" $800--a mere pittance compared to the $22,000 displays of conspicuous consumption that adorned Nancy Reagan. In the age of shameless accumulation, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that $800 is a hell of a lot of money to most people. For the more than 7 million Americans who work for the minimum wage, it's considerably more than a month's gross earnings...
...moral question. We have lost sight of that, and that is the danger. Our world, and our attitude to that world, affords us few occasions to contemplate the morality of our conduct. Demands for sensitivity are opportunities more than accusations. They are a challenge. Otherwise the tables will remain separate, no matter how many other changes may come to pass. President...
Last spring, officials at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) said they thought they could wrap up a discrimination complaint filed against one of the nine all-male final clubs, but today the end is not in sight...
...failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them ((the Palestinians)) it's a festival, for us a continuous Yom Kippur," said Rehavam Ze'evi of the far-right Homeland Party, referring to the solemn day of atonement...