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Struggle Not to Squint

BY Heath Row | 12-06-2005 | 5:41 PM

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Practically hidden in the Science section of today's New York Times is a brief item about dry eyes in the workplace. If you squint, say, while looking at a computer monitor, you can blink up to half as often as you do otherwise -- causing eye irritation.

I stopped wearing contacts when I got my first desk -- and desktop computer -- job. And I've yet to find an adequate solution to eye dryness. How do you deal with squinting -- and long hours at a computer?

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