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...Spike Lee's misinformed comments about the movie The Patriot, which is set during the American Revolution [PEOPLE, July 17]. Lee said, "I kept wondering, Where are all the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" As any schoolboy knows, cotton did not become king in the South until after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, in early 1793, several years after the events portrayed in the movie. STANLEY W. KANDEBO Newtown...
...Eli in the Yard...
...years drug companies have been searching in vain for an effective antisepsis potion. Then late last month Eli Lilly & Co. sounded an optimistic note. Clinical trials of a new Lilly drug called Zovant were abruptly halted when it became clear that the death rate of desperately sick patients infused with Zovant was significantly lower than that of counterparts receiving a placebo. When news of this development reached Wall Street, Lilly's stock jumped more than 14 points, to 102, in one day. "We'll know when we get all the data what the drug is truly capable of doing," says...
...Eli Lilly is remarketing Prozac under the name Sarafem to treat...
...What goes down so dramatically must come back up, experts say, even if only a little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John Jay College. New York's police officials also downplay the significance of the change...