Get-Up-and-Go Got Her Through -- EWU-bound student made it to graduation...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  July 10, 2003 ;     630 words ......say the least. But challenges seem to run in Blanco's family. Her mother, who is also named Maria Elena, has diabetes and scarred eye tissue, making her legally blind and employment nearly impossible. Nearly every morning of last year, before she went to school...

CONTENDERS OUT FOR NO. 1

The Boston Globe;  December 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Johnson doesn't cooperate, is Klitschko skilled enough to find ways to punish him? And what will happen to his carved-up and scarred eye once it is hit a few times? "To beat him is not easy," said Klitschko, who replaced Johnson as Lewis's opponent on short notice...

Poet Lane's prose glows against story's bleakness

Winnipeg Free Press;  October 5, 2008 ;     616 words ......the Starks' kitchen floor, she represents a healing possibility. But she is marked by her own past, most obviously in her scarred eye. Only the dead seem peaceful. Baby Alice's lyrical, dreamy voice contrasts with the harsh world of the living, as she describes...

'Casino Royale' strips the Bond franchise down to its bare...

Seattle Times (Seattle, WA);  November 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......bent on world destruction/domination/extortion, but the terrorist's banker, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). Le Chiffre has a scarred eye that sometimes weeps blood tears, and a gambling habit that's lost his clients' money in bad stock market bets. When he goes...

Useful vision can be preserved in patients with ROP

Ophthalmology Times;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the production of VEGE Therefore, it makes sense that after the due date we start to see a `vascularly quiet, but severely scarred, eye. "What happens if things progress to retinal detachment? What if there is a very small, predominantly effusive, retinal detachment...