| Inventor of eye laser surgery promotes Dünya Göz model
Thanks to the collaboration between University of Crete and Dnya Gz Hastanesi, the Turkish eye hospital chain has gained international prominence using the latest methods and techniques in eye surgery and has become a model hospital group in service quality.
DAMARIS KREMIDA
ISTANBUL – Turkish Daily News
Rector of Crete University Prof. Dr. Ioannis Pallikaris, known as the Father of eye laser – the method that has freed millions worldwide from their dependence on glasses – hopes to establish Turkey's Dnya Gz hospital as the biggest education and research institute in the world in a unique collaboration between his university and the world renown hospital. Pallikaris, also the president of the Association of European Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and his team of researchers at the University of Crete discovered in 1989 what is commonly known as LASIK – an acronym for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis, a form of refractive laser eye surgery procedure performed to correct myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.
Gambia: The Fatou Jaw Manneh I Know
One warm summer afternoon as I was standing on the second floor balcony of The Daily Observer building overlooking Sait Matty Road, Bakau, I was absorbing the beauty of the surrounding scenery and enjoying the cool, refreshing ocean breeze, as if without a care in the world. Standing there, I was lost in my own thoughts when suddenly something below caught my attention. A yellow taxicab came to a halt near the gates, and a slender lady exited from the back clutching a bag and walking gingerly as if she owned the grounds on which she was walking. But, Ms Fatou Jaw-Manneh is not one to be ever condescending, nor is there any sense of entitlement in her being; rather, it is in her nature to exude confidence, grace and dignity no matter what situation she finds herself in. Instead, it was Fatou simply being herself, true to her nature: unafraid and un-intimidated.
BERARDINO: Solid early returns
When the 2007 schedule was put together last summer, Major League Baseball and its computers had no idea Bruce Bochy was going to change jobs.
Still, it had to be with considerable emotion that Bochy led his new team, the San Francisco Giants, into last week's season-opening series against the team he managed for the past dozen years, the San Diego Padres.
The only way things could have been tougher for Bochy was if the series had been played in San Diego instead of by McCovey Cove. That challenge comes this week as the Giants head south for a three-game series that begins Monday.
"It's amazing the control of this game the baseball gods have," said new Giants center fielder Dave Roberts, one of several ex-Padres who followed Bochy up the coast.
Web test uncloaks bias in your eye
Thirty-nine years and a day after the man who issued that challenge was assassinated in Memphis, you'd hope we would be close to the goal. But the findings of three university researchers who developed a test to detect automatic racial preferences show we've got decades yet to go. White people, by and large, show an automatic preference for white people, as did most of the Asian and half of the black people surveyed, based on the results of the Black-White Implicit Association Test. It's part of a project started in 1998 at Yale University and now is led by three professors from Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. The test measures views that we're often unable or unwilling to openly reveal by tracking how fast you link a particular race with a positive or negative association.
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