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“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...

Elderly Road TripWhile on a road trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadsiderestaurant for lunch. After finishing their meal, they left therestaurant, and resumed their trip. When leaving, the elderlywoman unknowingly left her glasses on the table. she didn't missthem until they had been driving about forty minutes.By then, to add to the aggravation, they had to travel quite adistance before...

I used to wear glasses for near-sightedness. Now that I'm well into my fifties, my eyes have made dramatic changes. I no longer need them to see far away, but now I wear reading glasses. Oh well, it comes with the territory of aging, I guess. In the mid-nineties, I worked for a company called Southern Wine & Spirits. It's the largest supplier of alcoholic beverages in the...

Perhaps so. Researchers studied middle-aged adults who were placed on a low-fat, low-calorie diet (1,200 calories for women and 1,500 for men). After three months, the subjects who drank two glasses of water before breakfast, lunch and dinner lost an average of 15.5 pounds, compared to the non-water drinkers who lost 11 pounds. The difference occurred because the adults who drank water ate 75-90...