Word: sightedness
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The blind thrive on patterns: stairs are all the same height, city blocks roughly the same length, curbs approximately the same depth. They learn to identify the patterns in their environment much more than the sighted population do, and to rely on them to plot their way through the world...
This phenomenon showed me a larger truth about the importance of place in college life. To be sure, most Harvard students probably do their reading in the Quincy House library or their suites in Mather, if they do their reading at all. But all of us take our classes amid...
Narayan's mystical idea of an eternal India is antihistorical. But without that idea, and its associated religious sentiments, he would not have arrived at his remarkable way of looking and his peerless humor. A more clear-sighted man would not have been able to filter out or make harmless...
Web Browsers The Talking Net Last year it webcast the Paralympics live from Sydney, this year it's adding its voice to the Web - literally. New York-based WeMedia, a leading provider of information and services for disabled people, has launched a talking Web browser designed to help blind and...
Much of Shanghai's so-called urban renewal stems from similarly short-sighted greed. In the mid-'90s, China's largest metropolis went on a building blitz. Across the muddy Huangpu river, a futuristic realm called Pudong materialized, filled with hubris and towering skyscrapers. Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the...