Let the Sun Shine In? Fluorescents Drive Some Workers Batty.

Focuses on lighting in the workplace. Comments from George Tobia, a Boston (Mass.) attorney, regarding his distaste for fluorescent lighting; View of author that fluorescent lighting causes mental and physical maladies; Why commercial builders like the efficiency of fluorescent lighting; Comments from James LaMotte, a professor of optometry at the Southern California College of Optometry, indicating the lighting in most offices is far greater than it needs to be; Composition of fluorescent lighting; Technological innovations that have eliminated the problems associated with earlier versions of fluorescent lighting, including high levels of the stress hormones cortisol and adrenocorticotrophin.