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Last year my colleague Christine Gorman expressed skepticism in this space about a report that night-lights could trigger nearsightedness in infants. Now two follow-up studies have failed to prove the connection. For more information on night-lights, visit spectacle.berkeley.edu/cleere For more on dizziness, visit time.com/personal You can e-mail me at ianmedical@aol.com
Your article reported on allegations of fraud made against Lloyd's by a small group of disaffected Names. This piece appears to have been stimulated by the upcoming case to be heard by the Commercial Court in London under the title Society of Lloyd's v. Jaffray [Sir William Jaffray is a former Name]. It made no new disclosures and was one-sided, unbalanced and contained many inaccuracies. These old allegations relate back to events of the 1970s and '80s, and no evidence of fraud has ever been produced. Your report purported to comment on the current state...
TIME is to be commended for having the fortitude to paint a true picture of Lloyd's, warts and all. As you noted in your report, I am one of the unwitting Names who believed that the Lloyd's mystique was fact instead of fiction. Now that your article has been published, all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put the myth of Lloyd's of London back together again. ELIZABETH BENCSICS Rio Rancho...
Your special report on Lloyd's alleged that "possible fraud at Equitas is one of the issues to be aired in the Jaffray suit and is likely to figure in the U.S. criminal investigation." This statement is false. Contrary to your report, no allegations of fraud or of any other nature have been made against Equitas in the Jaffray case. In addition, Equitas is not, and never has been, the subject of a U.S. criminal investigation. Equitas did not begin operations until 1996, years after the allegedly fraudulent acts referred to in your report. The role of Equitas...
Writing in the current issue of Science, the researchers report that the flies are somnolent mainly at night and active during daylight hours: that elderly (33-day-old) flies sleep less and more erratically than younger ones; that fruit flies deprived of sleep must nap longer to recover; that caffeine keeps them awake, and antihistamines make them that drowsy...