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...other 10% of cases are the "wet" form, in which abnormal blood vessels spread across the back of the eye, obscuring vision. Former TIME editor-in-chief Henry Grunwald has evoked the wet form's unrelenting course in his new book Twilight, a piercing reflection on his growing blindness...
Visudyne works only on wet macular degeneration, and produces the best results in patients whose retinal abnormalities occur mostly in what is known as the classic pattern. Doctors inject the drug into a vein in the patient's arm; from there it quickly spreads through the body. The drug concentrates wherever new blood vessels are being formed. But it doesn't start destroying those blood vessels until it is activated by pulses of light from a non-heat-generating laser. Since the light is shone into the eye, only the abnormal growths in the retina are targeted. Patients have...
...surprise no one. He, along with Mark Twain, essentially invented the plain but supple American prose style, carefully composed to sound casual. So, to stress the point that "high blueberries" must be looked for in swamps, Thoreau writes, "When I see their dense curving tops ahead, I expect a wet foot." He dresses his adages in homespun: "All kinds of harvestry, even pulling turnips when the first cold weather numbs your fingers, are interesting if you have been the sower and have not sowed too many...
...mothers who have wept when their babies left for college, and who weep each time their babies return. To fathers who greet us with a gruff handshake, little siblings who meet us with incessant questions and pets that welcome us with a wet, sloppy kiss. Thank...
...WET That cute little APS camera from Canon just got cuter thanks to its new waterproof design. Called the Sport Utility Elph, the spunky, 8-oz. green-and-silver camera is the smallest and lightest of its kind. Some may balk at the $270 price and the costlier APS film, but since the Elph line outsells APS rivals 3 to 1, the Sport will likely make a splash...