Cheap sunglasses are worse than none at all by Roger Sinasohn Jul 25th 2008 4:01PM Toddlers, Preschoolers, Fun & activities, Health & safetyMost parents know that, in order to protect their kids' eyes, kids should wear sunglasses when they're out in the sun. Yes, even eyeballs can get sunburned. In fact, ultraviolet (UV) light can do much worse than just cause a corneal sunburn — long term exposure can lead to cataracts and retinal and macular degeneration. So, just as you slather your kids inhttp://www.parentdish.com/2008/07/25/cheap...

The notion of private highways, which would seem fantastic to our parents, was commonplace to our great-great-grandparents. Initiated in the 1790s in the growing Republic, these roads stimulated commerce, settlement, and population. During the nineteenth century more than 2,000 private companies financed, built, and operated toll roads.http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Private_Highways...

Today the Downtown Express reports on two downtown bars receiving major resistance from the Tribeca and FiDi communities. One is in hot water with Community Board 1 due to gunshots and rowdy patrons, the other, to the owner's connections with celebs Justin Timberlake and his ex Cameron Diaz. Both will meet their fate at the full board meeting next week: The case of 6 Murray St: Background: Owner Eytan Sugarman, who also co owns Southern Hospitality with Justin Timberlake, would like to open ahttp://eater.com/archives/2008/07/drying_o...

The study, published online in the journal BMC Oral Health, evaluated the impact of incorporating xylitol , already linked to fighting the harmful Mutans streptococci (MS) bacteria, in the traditional confectionery product.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

Back when the RSS aggregator web site Alltop launched in March of this year, we compared it to another daily start page favorite of ours at the time, OriginalSignal. Designed to bring RSS to the masses, Alltop, like both Original Signal and Popurls, provides categorized selections of feeds that make it easy to scan a lot of news on a particular subject. Since its launch, Alltop has been adding new categories at such a fast pace that it has now clearly blown away its competition in terms of quanhttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mains...