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Okayama University research: High levels of television exposure affect visual acuity in children In a study reported in the Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology, researchers from Okayama University show that long hours in front of the television in children under 3 years of age lead to increased eyesight concerns during later years. It is ingrained in parents to curtail the hours their children spend in front of the television. Anecdotal evidence suggests that prolonged viewing of television and...

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President joe biden making it very clear there, it is a legitimate question for voters to ask a candidate over 70 about their mental fitness, if theyre ready. and you heard his words for the president, watch me. >> reporter: well, republicans are taking that advice, they are watching joe biden. they intend to make his mental acuity, his fitness for office, a central theme. david, i expect you will hear them talk about it over and over again over the next four nights. >> and we should let our vie...

Hes touted his own mental acuity by describing a cognitive test he took more than two years ago. a test designed to detect memory loss. >> it was 30 or 35 questions, the first questions are very easy. the last questions are much more difficult. like a memory question, its like, youll go person, woman, man, camera, tv. so, theyd say, can you repeat that? so, i said, yeah. so, its person, woman, man, camera, tv. okay, thats very good. and then ten minutes, 15, 20 minutes later, theyd say, remember...

>> this is something were very concerned about. >> reporter: testing numbers are also lagging. new york has conducted roughly 7,000 since the outbreak. north carolina public labs have only done about 300. in south korea, where cases have flattened, 275,000 tests have been conducted. they are now even creating "phone booth" type sites. donovan mitchell is an nba player with the utah jazz. he is in isolation after becoming infected. his case highlighting the need for more testing. >> i dont have a...

Thing. that gods presence is close to us so that we feel alone. the incarnation, what christians celebrate today is that god chooses to become human to actually enter the despair, enter the suffering, to show were not alone in it. people sometimes think the dark naz dominates but we have examples of the light all around us. sometimes were she to look for it a little more, with a little bit more acuity, but its there. >> i love that, what you just said. im going to carry that around with me all d...

A black white supremacist. >> one of the greatest sketches, top of all time, all time, is that klansman sketch. the blind klansman sketch is fantastic. in is juxtaposition after juxtaposition after juxtaposition in that sketch. >> we dont like your kind around here. >> you better get out of here before something bad happens. >> thats right. thats right! >> come on, clayton. we got to go. >> oh, that monkey was beating my hood. white power! >> dave grew up around white people. as did i, in my lar...

They are vulnerable? >> i think its a beautiful thing to have a diverse field with so many candidates. the party will decide who is best to represent us against trump. the voters will decide who is best. >> when the whole thing began, i thought the democrats were saying to the world, not just to americans, go to the world, we are the diverse party and we will take america into the new century and lead the rest of the world are along the way. jumping in with billions of dollars. is that the parti...

Approach to marijuana if for no other reason than its thc, not tch and i think her reflection shows a real ignorance to the science demonstrating that in states where there are marijuana programs, you see a reduction in schedule 1 drug recommendations, you also see a reduction in the types of overdoses that are crippling our country and hollowing out america, and so i think that if we have a lower acuity, anti-pain alternative to heroin and opioids, then i think youll see the country do a lot be...

Ambassador knows they can be pulled at any given time. >> were you comfortable when you read the rough transcript of the presidents july 25th phone conversation with president zelensky, the way he spoke? the way the president spoke about her? >> thats how he speaks. its not my style, its not the way i speak. that is how he speaks. >> let me play you in your interview with an nbc "today" show with savannah guthrie and this exchange jumped out at me. >> did you ever have any doubt about the fitnes...