Were some semblance of a Chinese Wall restored between politicians' public and private lives, government might start attracting a better grade of candidate, with the kind of character that counts, distinguished by far-sightedness, pragmatism, fairness and - that rarest of qualities - frugality with other people's money.
No associations were observed between early life PCE exposure and current occurrence of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, color blindness, near- and far sightedness and dry eyes.
In contrast, no associations were observed between early life PCE exposure and the occurrence of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, color blindness, near- and far sightedness and dry eyes.
Hyperopia (far sightedness), causing difficulty in seeing close objects, is more likely to cause reading problems and is the focus of many studies of refractive error and school performance.
In this atmosphere the decision to funnel TCI's profits to the poor looks less like an act of insane generosity than a remarkable piece of far-sightedness.
The problem with this view, Russell explains, is that it implies a level of far-sightedness on the part of the first breeders that defies all evolutionary experience: "Wolves do not obey human commands, and it is hard to imagine that people persisted in raising dangerous animals for uncertain benefits far in the future".
Assistive device usage was hypothesised to be 31.5 and 28.7% for far-sightedness and near-sightedness, respectively.
The first two questions focused on the use of vision assistive devices for far-sightedness and near-sightedness.
Men with near-sightedness had the highest usage while women with far-sightedness had the lowest usage (Table 4).
Within this group, men had a higher percentage of use compared to women for far-sightedness (16.7% vs. 7.5%) and near-sightedness (18.8% vs. 11.3%) (Table 5).
These numbers are low compared to the Nigerian study, which reported 31.5% and 28.7% assistive use for far-sightedness and near-sightedness, respectively (8).
