Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Notice something oddly familiar about these faces? That's right, these lucky folk have inherited eyeglasses discarded by celebrities. The stars donate their old specs to LensCrafters' Give the Gift of Sight program, which in turn gives the glasses to ED BEGLEY JR., who distributes them in remote parts of Mexico. "It's a recycling program of the highest order," says actor-environmentalist Begley, whose own vision is so bad he feared--wrongly--that no one could use his old lenses. "I had so many pairs," he says, "I was the Imelda Marcos of eyeglasses." The boy pictured with Begley...
...need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told him, 'Okay.'" Great illustrations--funny, but not cutesy--by the author, who has drawn his buckaroos without a six-gun in sight...
...Citizens of the Tower of London are at best satisfactory. Though their swinging and swaying could have been sharper and better choreographed, they looked incredibly happy doing it. The grim faced quartet of Yeomen, looking a bit ridiculous in their putty, bright red uniforms, function more as a sight gag than a meaningful musical contribution to the show...
After about two years of work, Harvard researchers in the departments of psychology, neurology and radiology have confirmed that the same area of the brain is indeed stimulated for both sight and mental visualization. The results were published in last week's issue of the journal Nature...
...activates visual areas [of the brain]," said Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn, lead researcher of the study, in an e-mail message. "And it activates them in different ways, depending on the size of the visualized object--in a manner that is similar to what occurs in vision proper [normal sight...