Each year an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to half a million children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.
VOA: special.2011.03.01
"There was a dreadful roaring behind them as they stumbled, halfblind, frightened, soaking wet, through miles of paddy, sinking into thick mud while trying desperately to outrun the ever-pursuing monster, " Winchester tells us.
The blacksmith felt his organs clench as the first of the dogs, the bravely stupid, half-blind shepherd, reached the tiger and immediately went end over end as the big cat lashed at and then pinned him with all its enormous weight.
The half-blind cleric--who leads the Nadhlatul Ulama, a moderate Muslim organization with 30 million members--has actually won greater support from a loose coalition of eight Islamic parties known as the Central Axis than from his own PKB, which still claims to back Megawati.