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These lenses exhibited significant nuclear light scattering diagnosed as cataract by slit lamp, and warranted removal by an ophthalmologist (grade 2-4 on a 0-4 scale [ 11 ] ). The extractions were performed by the same surgeon using consistent techniques.
Few people knew any of it, besides some old-timers and a scattering of enthusiasts; "folk music" meant either the topical work of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly or the kind of art-song taxidermy practiced by the likes of the baritone John Jacob Niles.
On average, every third person is reading a newspaper: There are the contortionists who fold the ever-expanding Times into readable wedges, the tabloid readers (whose papers are enviably scaled for reading in motion), and a scattering of people clutching Spanish or Asian papers.
Here, a low cliff backing and a scattering of rocks and coves give the beach far more character than some of the seemingly endless stretches farther south.
He called it "scattering the pigeons."