Sri Lanka donates eyes to the world (AP)

In this Nov. 4, 2011 photo, people wait in a line to get their eyes examined as a staffer, foreground, examines the eye of a cataract patient at the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The gift of sight has become an unwritten symbol of Sri Lanka's pride and culture. Despite being a poor island nation of about 20 million people that has recently emerged from a quarter century of civil war, the country is among the world's largest cornea providers, sending more than 60,000 eyes to 57 nations since its first donation nearly 50 years ago, according to the nonprofit Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society. Nearly 900,000 people have also signed up to give their eyes in death through the Eye Donation Society's longstanding eye bank. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP – At 10:25 a.m., a dark brown eye was removed from a man whose lids had closed for the last time. Five hours later, the orb was staring up at the ceiling from a stainless steel tray in an operating room with two blind patients — both waiting to give it a second life.



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Stockard Channing eyes ‘Other Desert’ return

photo Stockard Channing plans to return to a Broadway stage Friday night for the initially time since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on her right knee just five days ago.



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Tony and Candice — The Eyes Have It

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Tony Romo and Candice Crawford exchanged “the look of like” during their wedding days gone by.

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Politico – McConnell says top priority for a possible GOP Senate majority is repealing health care bill.

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China eyes 500 million web users (AFP)

Customers are seen playing online games at a internet cafe in Beijing. A top Chinese official has said the nation's online population, already the largest in the world, is expected to exceed 500 million in the next two to three years.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP – A top Chinese official has said the state’s online populace, already the largest in the world, is expected to exceed 500 million in the next two to three years.


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