French Serge Ricoeur tests a new ATM machine (money distributor), especially adapted for the use of the blind people, in Sotteville Les Rouen, west of Paris December 13, 2005. The ATM machine is one of the two first money distributors adapted to the use of blind and partially sighted people in [Europe], which will be inaugurated on Thursday. 

French Serge Ricoeur tests a new ATM machine (money distributor), especially adapted for the use of the blind people, in Sotteville Les Rouen, west of Paris December 13, 2005. The ATM machine is one of the two first money distributors adapted to the use of blind and partially sighted people in Europe, which will be inaugurated on Thursday. REUTERS/Steve Bonet (FRANCE) 

French Serge Ricoeur tests a new ATM machine (money distributor), especially adapted for the use of the blind people, in Sotteville Les Rouen, west of Paris December 13, 2005. The ATM machine is one of the two first money distributors adapted to the use of blind and partially sighted people in Europe, which will be inaugurated on Thursday. REUTERS/Steve Bonet (FRANCE) 

Mohamad Haytham Saleh (L), a 10-year-old Iraqi boy, attends a news conference next to Yukiko Hashida - the widow of Japanese freelance journalist Shinsuke Hashida who was killed in Iraq - at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo June 21, 2004. The partially blind boy was brought to Japan for treatment as one of the last deeds of Hashida, 61, who was killed by gunmen south of Baghdad on May 27. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao YN/SH 

Mohamad Haytham Saleh (L), a 10-year-old Iraqi boy stands in front of Yukiko, the widow of Japanese journalist Shinsuke Hashida, after he placed a flower in front of a photograph of Japanese freelance journalist Hashida in Tokyo June 19, 2004. The boy, who was partially blind, was brought to Japan for treatment as one of the last deeds of Hashida, 61, who was killed by gunmen south of Baghdad on May 27. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao YN/LA 

Mexican crocodile trainer Tamacun gets a playful nibble from a crocodile
during a show in the tourist resort of Playa Linda Ixtapa in the Mexican
State of Guerrero, August 1, 2003. Tamacun regularly puts on shows for
tourists at the resort using some of 47 crocodiles that he has trained and
tamed. Pictures of the Year 2003 REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar PP03080038

DA/AS 

Former middleweight boxing champion Gerald McClellan (L) grasps the
hand of former heavyweight boxing champion Greg Page in Rockford,
Illinois on February 24, 2003 at a benefit held to raise funds for the
two men. McClellan suffered brain damage in a fight with Nigel Benn in
London in 1995 and has been blind and deaf since then. Page suffered
brain damage in a fight against Darrel Crowe in Kentucky two years ago
and has been partially paralyzed since then. REUTERS/Teddy Blackburn

PM 

A bank depositor bangs a monkey wrench against a railing while lying on the
front step of a Banco Provincia branch during a protest against the
government of President Eduardo Duhalde, as banks reopened for five hours,
only for bill payments and deposits, for the first time since the Duhalde
administration ordered them shut a week earlier to stop a run from
collapsing the system, April 26, 2002. Ordinary Argentines, resigned to life
with no cash after a week without banks, saw little hope of relief in a
partial opening of banks and planned to ration themselves over the weekend.
The sign behind says, "Crooks. They left Justice blind. Return savings."
REUTERS/Rickey Rogers

RR/HK 

Britain's Prince Charles (L) peers to get a look at a painting while
partially blinded by a television camera light with Spain's Prince
Felipe March 14, 2002. Prince Charles is in Madrid to inaugurate a
special exhibition "The Sale of The Century" at the Prado Museum, on
artistic relations between Spain and Britain. REUTERS/Pool

PW 

An Afghan boy stands in front of an empty enclosure of Marjan, the
partially blind lion, at Kabul Zoo January 27, 2002. Marjan survived a
king, a coup, Soviet occupation, communist rule, internecine mujahideen
battles, the Taliban and a U.S. bombing campaign. But on Saturday, the
only lion in Afghanistan died of old age at the zoo.

REUTERS/Oleg Popov 

A partially blind man looks at a winning picture at the World Press Photo exhibition which opened at the Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw June 7, 2001.

PA/AA 

The inventor of the VirTouch computer mouse for the blind and partially sighted, Ramon Gouzman, poses with an example of his invention Jerusalem March 5, 2001. The mouse acts as the eyes of the partially sighted and blind by helping them view computer graphics through touch. Manufacturers tout the VirTouch systems (VTS), as a quantum leap toward their integration into the world of the sighted. VTS allows the blind to recognise graphic shapes, pictures, play tactile computer games and read text in normal letters or Braille by placing fingers in three pads that respond when a cursor on the computer screen touches a graphic or letter. 

Blind Israeli Ariel Gamliel uses a special computer mouse to study a map of the Old City of Jerusaelm March 5, 2001. The mouse acts as the eyes of the partially sighted and blind by helping them view computer graphics through touch. Manufacturers tout the VirTouch systems (VTS), as a quantum leap toward their integration into the world of the sighted. VTS allows the blind to recognise graphic shapes, pictures, play tactile computer games and read text in normal letters or Braille by placing fingers in three pads that respond when a cursor on the computer screen touches a graphic or letter. 

Blind Israeli Tammy Rimon uses a computer mouse to play a video game as her seeing-eye dog waits under her chair in Jerusalem March 5, 2001. The mouse acts as the eyes of the partially sighted and blind by helping them view computer graphics through touch. Manufacturers tout the VirTouch systems (VTS), as a quantum leap toward their integration into the world of the sighted. VTS allows the blind to recognise graphic shapes, pictures, play tactile computer games and read text in normal letters or Braille by placing fingers in three pads that respond when a cursor on the computer screen touches a graphic or letter. 

Blind Israeli Ariel Gamliel uses a special computer mouse to study a map of the Old City of Jerusaelm March 5, 2001. The mouse acts as the eyes of the partially sighted and blind by helping them view computer graphics through touch. Manufacturers tout the VirTouch systems (VTS), as a quantum leap toward their integration into the world of the sighted. VTS allows the blind to recognise graphic shapes, pictures, play tactile computer games and read text in normal letters or Braille by placing fingers in three pads that respond when a cursor on the computer screen touches a graphic or letter.

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The inventor of the VirTouch computer mouse for the blind and partially sighted, Ramon Gouzman, poses with an example of his invention Jerusalem March 5, 2001. The mouse acts as the eyes of the partially sighted and blind by helping them view computer graphics through touch. Manufacturers tout the VirTouch systems (VTS), as a quantum leap toward their integration into the world of the sighted. VTS allows the blind to recognise graphic shapes, pictures, play tactile computer games and read text in normal letters or Braille by placing fingers in three pads that respond when a cursor on the computer screen touches a graphic or letter.

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Blind Israeli Tammy Rimon uses a computer mouse to play a video game as her seeing-eye dog waits under her chair in Jerusalem March 5, 2001. The mouse acts as the eyes of the partially sighted and blind by helping them view computer graphics through touch. Manufacturers tout the VirTouch systems (VTS), as a quantum leap toward their integration into the world of the sighted. VTS allows the blind to recognise graphic shapes, pictures, play tactile computer games and read text in normal letters or Braille by placing fingers in three pads that respond when a cursor on the computer screen touches a graphic or letter.

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Roselia Perez, 4 years old and partially blind, sits next to her sister Ernestina as a neighbor boy looks on at her home in Acteal village, a Chiapas highland hamlet, June 3, 2000. Perez was an infant on her mother's back when armed civilians opened fire on her family and neighbors on December 22, 1997 as they prayed for peace to come to Mexico's Indian heartland. Everything changed that day for Roselia and her two older sisters, orphaned in the massacre of 45 Tzotzil Indians in the Chiapas highland village of Acteal.

HR/HB 

Romanian blind people hold up their white sticks during a protest in front of government headquarters March 28. They are protesting the government decision to partially cut their benefits and asked for higher pensions and other facilities.

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Sachin (R) a blind player goes back to the pavillion with the help of partially blind player after been given out during a cricket championship for the blind in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta December 23. The final day of eigth national cricket championship for the blind being held between Gujrat team versus Delhi team. Gujrat scored 282 runs in 35 overs before lunch.

JS/TS 

TO GO WITH FEATURE BC-LIFE-TANZANIA-BLIND - Eleven blind or partially sighted young people, most of them teenagers, set off August 29 to climb Africa's majestic Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity and prove a point to the world. The six African's and five British climbers, aged between 14 and 24, began their assault on Kilimanjaro, hoping to reach its snow-covered peak at 5,895 meters (19,347 feet).

AN/JRE 

TO GO WITH FEATURE BC-LIFE-TANZANIA-BLIND - Eleven blind or partially sighted young people, most of them teenagers, set off August 29 to climb Africa's majestic Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity and prove a point to the world. The six African's and five British climbers, aged between 14 and 24, began their assault on Kilimanjaro, hoping to reach its snow-covered peak at 5,895 meters (19,347 feet).

AN/SA 

Blind Australian fielder Brian Talbot (R) tries to field a ball hit by partially blind New Zealand batsman Stanley Ruri as wicketkeeper Chris Backstrom looks on during the Cricket World Cup for the Blind in New Delhi November 17. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, India and England are also competing in the event.

SM/JO/KM 

Blind New Zealand batsman Jason Griffths (R) is helped by partially blind runner Josh McCaskill to take guard for a strike in a match against Australia in the Cricket World Cup for the Blind in New Delhi November 17. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, India and England are also competing in the event.

SM/JO/KM 

Defying the government's advice to stay home during the partial solar eclipse, a group of youngsters, one wearing a welding mask, take to the streets shouting "I'm blind! I'm blind!" February 26. Some Haitians who stayed inside said they were afraid they would go blind if they went outside after the government had warned people not to stare at the sun during the eclipse, which can damage vision.

ECLIPSE CARIBBEAN 

TO MATCH STORY BC-MEXICO-ELECTION-ACTEAL - Four-year-old Roselia Perez (L), who is partially blind, touches her sister's hair as her grandmother looks on at her home in Acteal village, a Chiapas highland hamlet, June 3. Perez was an infant on her mother's back when armed civilians opened fire on her family and neighbors on December 22, 1997 as they prayed for peace to come to Mexico's Indian heartland.

HR/SV