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Light enters the eye in parallel rays, which are gradually bent as they pass through the cornea and lens. In the normal eye, they converge, or focus, precisely on the retina at the back of the eyeball. Electrical impulses then transmit a sharp image to the brain. In the nearsighted, however, the eyeball is usually too long or the cornea too curved, so that the rays come to a focus in front of the retina. In the farsighted, the eyeball is too short or the cornea too flat and the light rays, if they could pass through it, would converge...
...only limitation left on cable TV programming is a prohibition against airing a national network production on one of the extra cable channels at the same time that a local network affiliate is showing it. Another regulation still in force: a cable TV company cannot transmit regional sports events that over-the-air stations in the area have had to black...
...Soviets, too, were playing hardball. Authorities at the spanking new Olympic TV center at Ostankino in northern Moscow have told journalists who want to transmit footage back home via the center's facilities that any film will be rejected if it strays even slightly from the subject of sports. The first victim of this policy was Klaus Bednarz, a correspondent for the West German network ARD. His report, titled The Olympics and Propaganda, was turned down flat by officials, so he had to send it by air freight...
...also been barred from hotels where foreign tourists are staying. The Soviets even refused to allow the U.S. Ambassador to deliver his traditional Fourth of July speech and the French Ambassador to make his traditional Bastille Day speech, because both contained references to Afghanistan. Soviet officials also refused to transmit a French TV report on the Bastille Day censorship...
...Boston group since the late 1960s, explains. "Blavatsky in her travels spent seven years in a Tibetan monetary and she was asked to go out and head up this experiment and make available this information." Evidently satisfied with the early progress of the "experiment," the Hierarchy continued to transmit the ancient wisdom, according to Theosophy...