Article: A Cardinal Influences Peripheral Sight. (From The Avon River Poems).(Poem)

Article: A Cardinal Influences Peripheral ...
Poetry;  November 1, 2001 ;     313 words ...Through insect screens a patch of tangled stems and leaves works as graph paper; or is this the way it seems, in its duns and browns? The snow-fray an aura breaking up, static scoriae We see community and politics in the starlings' feeding frenzy, hearted deep by cardinal working outwards, its

Article: Focus on macular degeneration.(Letter to the editor)
Saturday Evening Post;  September 1, 2006 ;     419 words ... ... macular degeneration never go completely blind unless complications such as inoperable cataracts take all peripheral sight. Peripheral sight allows people to navigate, recognize people and places, and to read labels with a magnifier. I have ...

Article: Witnesses testify at trial in North Aurora massacre
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  January 31, 2001 ;     580 words ... ... pending. A victim, Rebecca Wilkinson, 19, testified she suffered a gunshot wound to her head that caused her to lose her peripheral sight, caused a hearing loss in her right ear and caused the loss of her short-term memory. Wilkinson said she remembered ...

Article: Bright, bold, and beautiful: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe
USA Today;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Keeffe, suffering from macular degeneration, began to lose her central vision. Eventually, she was left with only peripheral sight. Later in life, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Pres. Gerald Ford, and Pres. Ronald Reagan presented ...

Article: GENE THERAPY FOR BLINDNESS CLEARS HURDLE IN MICE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 14, 2007 ;     606 words ... ... symptoms between the ages of 10 and 30. At first they have problems seeing in dimly lit places, followed by loss of their peripheral sight. The rate of progression varies, but most patients are blind by 40. UF Genetics Institute researchers engineered the ...

Article: Girls just wanna have fun One word best describes Wolves' Haen: ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... girls volleyball team along with her good friend and former club teammate Paige Johnson of St. Edward. Such uncommon peripheral sight isn't a genetic gift. It is a skill Haen worked to develop, like all her other extraordinary volleyball skills, through ...

Article: It's your call July 30, 2003
St. Joseph News-Press;  July 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... had to laugh at the unusual sight - until she started to merge into my lane as I was driving right beside her in plain peripheral sight. Now, I know that as a woman in my early 20s, I may not be the best of drivers in the eyes of many. But I can honestly ...