Re: First Stevie, then Jordie...

Zeb Haradon (zharadon@inconnect.com)
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 01:05:26 -0800

-----Original Message-----
From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com> Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:44 PM Subject: First Stevie, then Jordie...

>Just saw this in the news. Anyone know anything about it?
>
>STEVIE WONDER WANTS TO SEE!: Superstar musician Stevie Wonder has announced
>that he will undergo an operation that could restore his sight. The BBC
>reports that Wonder told fellow worshippers in a Detroit church that the
>operation "helps the blind to become
>sighted with the help of some sort of chip." Wonder, 49, lost his sight
>within hours of birth, and hopes to have the operation at the Wilmer Eye
>Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
>
>
>

An earlier poster (I forget who) mentioned that since his announcement, he has spoken with the people at the institute, and it was determined that the procedure wouldn't help him.
I think this probably only means he'll have to wait a few more years.



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