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ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [FEBRUARY - ARGENTINA] Hello, everyone! I hope you enjoyed getting into South Korean books in January! Let us know in the comments what you read and if you liked it. Now February is upon us and our country of the month is Argentina! We’ll explore Argentinian literature, one of the very best Latin America has to offer. You can choose one of the modern classics like Jorge Luis Borges or Julio Cortázar, or perhaps discover new and rule-breaking works ...

SHREVEPORT, La -- Glaucoma is a degenerative eye disease that can completely rob you of your vision. It affects around 3 million Americans and is a leading cause of blindness. “Glaucoma is high pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve,” said Dr. Chris Shelby from the WK Eye Institute. There are different types of glaucoma. One type is acute angle-closure glaucoma. “That can cause blurred vision, headaches, nausea, vomiting. When the pressure goes up really, really high re...

An Interview with Adrian Tomine Over 800 pages and eleven years in the making, A Drifting Life is a monumental achievement and the long-waited autobiography of legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Called the father of gekiga—realistic or mature-themed manga that predated the literary graphic novel movement in the U.S. by decades—Tatsumi was formally introduced to English-language readers with the acclaimed Drawn & Quarterly publications of his short stories: The Push Man and Ot...

On. the training forges team spirit its also their own little haven here a disability is nothing out of the ordinary unlike elsewhere in the peruvian capital there isnt much in the way of signals ramps or railings to help visually impaired people lima is a city of ten million with massive traffic congestion. but bus drivers often just ignore law has two buses go by before one finally stops to let iran. last im lucky to get a c. today people dont always give up their seat for me there are days wh...

Examine the retina or to treat it can you do this through an artificial and says well for me that doesnt really matter whether i look at the retina through a natural or an artificial lens and i told you examine the retina was the thing you did on my eye today yes so what we do is we look at the optic disk for example that is the where the optic nerve starts that connects basically the eye and the brain in this area we can also observe all of the retina vasculature and we can look whether the ret...

A carrot different ways where surgery is the predominant choice your specialization is the retina and retinal diseases and if you want to examine the retina or to treat it can you do this through an artificial and says well for me that doesnt really matter whether i look at that is we look at the optic disc for example that is the where the optic nerve starts that connects basically the eye and the brain in this area we can also observe all of the retina investigator and we can look whether the ...

>> reporter: those were only the shots to his head. the tip of his ring finger was blown off. other shots hit his thumb and shoulder. >> there were six pretty good sized bullet holes. >> reporter: when he was well enough to talk to detectives, sutton told them what he could. the story of a man who barely witnessed the attack that killed his wife and almost killed him. he was a former college swimmer, so he was watching an olympic diving event in the master bedroom, he said. >> next thing i know,...

Couldnt even imagine. i dont even, i cant even try to think what that would be like. >> reporter: memorizing things and going into court, what is that -- a pretty determined guy. >> yeah, i agree. >> reporter: but adapting, even successful adapting using a talking typewriter for example. wasnt enough for john sutton. as he waited for his sons long delayed trial he pursued with something like an obsession, a quest to regain his eyesight. and most people might have given up by then. cant do anythi...

And a little germ of hope lodged itself in his stubborn mind. >> reporter: you were thinking, maybe they can do it for you. >> i said i am in the right spot. >> reporter: he talked to the leading researcher working on optic nerve repair. >> have you done any studies with severed optic nerves. >> reporter: he peppered them with questions like he was cross-examining witnesses. mike gilmore, president of the research clinic offered sutton a glimmer of hope. >> we will be able to regenerate an optic...

Optic nerve in mice using stem cell therapy and drugs, human trials would be next. so in march 2008, almost three years to the day after his son was arrested, sutton and his girlfriend kathy were on the cold, rain swept streets of boston on the way to an appointment at the clinic. >> okay. there is a chin rest in front of you. a doctor evaluated, suttons one intact eye and discovered though the nerve was destroyed, the rest of the eye, theoretically at least could work. >> my son is in jail, cha...