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IT'S NOT A JOB FOR THE SQUEAMISH
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VOTKINSK, USSR - Two thoughts often run through the minds of the
26 American inspectors here as they crawl around the nuclear
missiles being shipped from the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant,
one of the largest Soviet rocket factories.
Be calm, because a 70-foot, dimly lit railroad boxcar stuffed
with cables, winches and an intercontinental ballistic missile --
loaded with highly explosive solid fuel -- is no place for the
clumsy or the claustrophobic.
Be cool, because shortly after the American inspectors have
finished and stepped aside, the giant missile will continue down
the track, ...
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Blindness caused by diabetes - Massachusetts, 1987-1994.
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
; Diabetes, the leading cause of new blindness among U.S. adults aged 20-74 years, accounts for approximately 8% of cases of legal blindness and 12% of all new cases of blindness in the United States each year (1). One of...
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Blindness on the increase in Pakistan, especially among women.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; ...November 15 (PPI): The cases of blindness in Pakistan are growing and the situation...and economically. The experts say that blindness is one of the five major disabilities...people in Pakistan are suffering from blindness and two-thirds of them are women...
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Blindness-control policy and population-based surveys in India.
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
; ...planning eye-care policy to reduce blindness in India was referred to in a previous...exclusive attention to cataract in the blindness-control policy of India is based on...report of the 1986-89 national survey of blindness that 80% of the blindness in India is...
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Prevent Blindness Texas Names Dr. Gerald D. Cagle the 2008 People of Vision Award Winner.
Business Wire
; FORT WORTH, Texas -- Prevent Blindness Texas - Fort Worth Branch, an affiliate of Prevent Blindness America, the nation's leading volunteer...safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight, has chosen Gerald D...
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Childhood blindness in India and Sri Lanka.(Community Eye Care)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
; ...magnitude, causes and control of childhood blindness and severe visual loss, based upon recent...convened a global workshop on childhood blindness which was held in London. One of the...data on the prevalence and causes of blindness and severe visual loss in children in...
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HEALTH: PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS AFFLICTS MAINLY POOR WOMEN
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...IPS) -- A new study that connects blindness with poverty also finds that two-thirds...of published scientific literature on blindness and have found that gender, education...corrective surgery. However, patterns of blindness also mirror the income and health disparities...
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Childhood blindness patterns are changing worldwide
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...FRCOphth Chicago-The patterns of childhood blindness and visual impairment have been changing...traditional eye remedies) declines, blindness due to cataract and refractive errors are becoming relatively more important. Blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP...
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Blindness in Pakistan - a growing problem. (Pakistan)
Magazine article from: Economic Review
; Blindness in Pakistan - a growing problem The very...this programme towards Prevention of Blindness and tackling the curable population...would better stay put with the subject of blindness in its physical aspects, only hoping...
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Economic burden of blindness in India.(Community Eye Care)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
; ...and indirect economic loss due to blindness in India is calculated on the basis...assumptions. The cost of treating cataract blindness in India is estimated at current prices. The economic burden of blindness in India for the year 1997 based on...
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Planning to reduce childhood blindness in India.(Community Eye Care)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
; ...Rahi, Gullapalli. Rao Reduction of blindness in children assumes particular significance...children blind in India and the causes of blindness are relatively crude as there are little...approach to the control of childhood blindness in India. In order to address this issue...
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