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</script></div><link><id>52346</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52346/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind man sees with the aid of son's tooth]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>720</score><crdate>2/27/2008 9:34:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-27T21:34:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37140</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37140/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind man sees wife &amp; kids for the first time]]></title><description><![CDATA[In today's GOOD news...]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>395</score><crdate>10/2/2007 5:47:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-02T17:47:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18461</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18461/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind ambition sees pilot Miles set record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blind pilot Miles Hilton-Barber felt euphoric when he touched down at Sydney's Bankstown Airport just before 8am, becoming the first blind man to fly halfway around the world.<br/><br/>Update on an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/17714/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earlier post</a>.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>40</score><crdate>4/30/2007 2:13:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-30T02:13:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133256</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/133256/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind Granny Healed With Tooth-Implant In Eye]]></title><description><![CDATA[A formerly blind grandmother has regained her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>32</score><crdate>9/19/2009 3:35:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-19T03:35:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5621</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/5621/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Eating in total darkness, served by blind waiters.]]></title><description><![CDATA[New restaurant opens in London, Dans Le Noir.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>-15</score><crdate>11/13/2006 9:49:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-13T09:49:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>128095</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/128095/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind can take wheel with vehicle designed by university engineering design team]]></title><description><![CDATA[A retrofitted four-wheel dirt buggy developed by the Blind Driver Challenge team  uses laser range finders, an instant voice command interface and a host of other innovative, cutting-edge technology to guide blind drivers as they steer, brake, and accelerate.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>281</score><crdate>7/16/2009 10:54:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-16T22:54:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133246</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133246/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How the Brain Learns to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[Normally, babies learn how to look at the world before they can communicate their experiences. The rare cases of people who have been blind all their lives and then had their sight restored offer scientists a unique opportunity to study how we learn to interpret visual signals. Pawan Sinha is studying children and adolescents in India who are seeing the world for the first time after treatment for blindness.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>131</score><crdate>9/19/2009 12:49:51 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-19T00:49:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82651</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82651/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind and Gay]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story about a blind man and his experience in the gay world.  Sorta sad.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>205</score><crdate>11/23/2008 10:13:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-23T22:13:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12264</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/12264/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hybrid too quiet for the blind]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, people have moaned about how noisy cars can be, but you would never imagine that people would complain if cars were too quiet. That is exactly what Cheryl Martin, the director from the Lilac Blind Foundation, has been doing.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-27</score><crdate>3/5/2007 7:28:16 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-05T07:28:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41587</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41587/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hospital workers abandon blind patient at park after ex-wife refuses to take him in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four hospital workers abandoned a blind patient with diabetes at an Osaka park in September after his former wife refused to take him in.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>248</score><crdate>11/14/2007 8:10:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-14T08:10:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26297</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/26297/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Million-year-old human tooth found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish researchers have reportedly unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>72</score><crdate>7/5/2007 11:16:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-05T11:16:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52754</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52754/1/</url><title><![CDATA[John Bramblitt, blind artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quick search turns up a multiplicity of blind artists, but I really like this man's art.  Link inspired by <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/52699/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this post</a>.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>167</score><crdate>3/2/2008 6:38:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-02T18:38:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53920</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/53920/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Siafu, The PC for Blind People]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've never seen anything like this, it looks incredible. A new type of PC for blind people. I can't describe it very well, so have a look.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>493</score><crdate>3/11/2008 5:55:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-11T17:55:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6634</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/6634/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Federal judge rules paper money is unfair to the blind.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Soon we won't be able to short change sightless people anymore.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>8</score><crdate>11/29/2006 8:27:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-29T08:27:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44298</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44298/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Color Blind, And how They View the World.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Very interesting look on how the color blind see things compared to normal sight.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>497</score><crdate>12/15/2007 8:54:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-15T08:54:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>118090</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/118090/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The contact lens that can help the blind see again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The groundbreaking operation brought significant improvements in vision within a matter of weeks. <br/><br/>The procedure uses a person's own cells to heal damage to the cornea - the transparent outermost layer of the eye.<br/><br/>Fitting news for <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/f/6639/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FAF</a> if eyes win.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>516</score><crdate>5/28/2009 9:07:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-28T21:07:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>94554</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/94554/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Deaf and blind woman escapes her abductor then identifies the suspect]]></title><description><![CDATA[The woman &#8212; deaf and mute, with vision so poor she's legally blind &#8212; had been sitting at a bus stop when she was approached by a man she thought was a co-worker. She was wrong!]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>477</score><crdate>2/14/2009 1:10:59 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-14T13:10:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>27716</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/27716/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Rugby player finds rival's tooth buried in forehead]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Australian rugby player who went to his doctor with severe headaches was amazed to find he'd been living with an opponent's tooth embedded in his forehead for months.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070717/photos_od_afp/24e99fe388ca39b068ef996271f6169a;_ylt=AsmHnheorD4ZOTUagoUfhpKhOrgF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">See X-ray photo</a>]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>222</score><crdate>7/17/2007 12:09:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-17T12:09:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61132</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/61132/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind Bowler Scores Perfect Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blind Iowa man scored a perfect 300 game at the Century Lanes bowling alley on Saturday, The Storm Lake Times reported.<br/><br/>&#8220;I can&#8217;t see the lane or the pins and have a heck of a time finding my ball sometimes,&#8221; Davis told The Times.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>476</score><crdate>5/8/2008 9:30:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T21:30:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133839</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/133839/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forgo her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition, reports Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>335</score><crdate>9/29/2009 6:40:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-29T18:40:09+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>