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Andy Karp
Group Editor, Lenses and Technology

Melissa Arkin
Associate Editor

Author: 20/20&U Blog Admin Created: 8/23/2007
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9/18/2009 BACKWARD TO BASICS
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Luxury eyewear? High-end eyewear? Are you folks at 20/20 losing your minds? What’s all this hypo-lux stuff doing in this upcoming October issue?
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8/11/2009 May Eye Have Your Attention
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I notice eyewear. It’s an occupational hazard. I pay attention to frame shapes, brand logos and colors. I have been known to ask a total stranger about her glasses. There are even times when I am straining so hard across a room or subway car to make out a name on someone’s frames that I’m sure the person thinks I’m either crazy or stalking him or both.
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6/11/2009 In The Market
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I love going to my local farmer’s markets. Here in Manhattan we have quite a few around including a small one in my neighborhood that is literally a few steps outside my building...
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4/20/2009 The Cycle of Life
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I know I’ve written on this topic before. In fact, I’ve written it many times. And I’m going to keep on writing it until I see change in the scenario. Here goes...
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3/17/2009 Green Eyed
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Green is the word these days. Everybody is talking about going green and what we all can do to treat the planet (and ourselves) better.
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1/21/2009 I Love Sunglasses
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I have to come clean; I’m on Facebook. Okay, I know that’s not that big a deal and that many of you are probably on this social networking site. I got sucked in thanks to an invitation to join from a friend about a year ago.
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10/14/2008 Substantial Witness
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What follows is a letter to 20/20 concerning an editorial column in the October issue of L&T. Pam Holt has agreed to let 20/20 publish her letter on the 2020&U blog.
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10/6/2008 Go Directly to Jail
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Here’s a guest blog from one of our frequent 20/20 Magazine contributors.
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9/6/2008 Worn in the USA
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In case you didn’t read it 20/20 was quoted last week in a story about the Republican vice presidential candidate’s eyewear. Here it is so you can get up to speed and perhaps post your own views on the subject...the EYEWEAR aspect of the subject that is...
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8/18/2008 We Got Slimed
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Remember the famous scene in “Ghostbusters” when Bill Murray’s character encounters a bulbous green blob that “slimes” him and his team? Well, we in the optical industry got slimed in the July/August issue of Consumers Digest. An article with the provocative headline, “Optical Illusion” purports to have investigated us, but it is actually a poorly researched diatribe against our industry’s supposed faults and excesses.
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