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SOME TANS ARE HEALTHY A sun-kissed glow may bring a hidden benefit, according to a new study in Cancer Research: a lower risk of prostate cancer. The study of 905 Caucasian Californians found that as men's skin got darker, their prostate-cancer risk got smaller. Men with the highest levels of sun exposure had half the risk of men with the lowest levels. Warning: too much sun increases the risk of skin cancer...
Most attention-getting, however, is Solondz’s device of having the main character be played by seven actresses and one actor over eight segments, from an overweight African-American woman to a Caucasian red-head to “Single White Female” Jennifer Jason Leigh. During the ninth segment, all the actors appear...
Because of their age, their ancestry and their many years in the California sunshine, both Reagan, 74, and Nixon, 72, are typical victims. The risk of developing skin cancer increases with age and years of exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. In the U.S., one Caucasian in seven will be stricken during his lifetime. Skin cancer is hundreds of times more common among whites than blacks and is especially common in those of Northern European extraction, with Irish Americans like Reagan at particularly high risk...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...
...study, published in this month’s Obesity Research journal, monitored 314 predominately Caucasian children from East Boston between two visits...