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Regular tinted sunglasses that protect the eye from visible light do not < necessarily screen out harmful rays. To stop UV light, lenses must be treated with a special pigment that absorbs the damaging rays. Eye specialists caution that untreated sunglasses may be worse than no sunglasses at all. Reason: without dark glasses, people squint and blink in the sun, minimizing the amount of UV light reaching...
Thus the watchword at NASA these days is caution. More than 200 modifications have been made to the orbiter alone, and dozens of others to the rocket boosters and the fuel tank. Would-be whistle blowers are encouraged to / report problems anonymously right to the top. "The real challenge," says Richard Truly, NASA associate administrator for space flight, "is to make sure we don't strangle ourselves with being worried excessively about safety...
...market's 508-point drop shook up the business community and has made the future financiers from the Class of '88 proceed with caution in their job searches. Nonetheless, the storm seems to be over, and its wake was not powerful enough to frighten most seniors away from Wall Street...
...Jackson has resisted the pressure to duke it out with Dukakis. This calculated caution may stem from Jackson's awareness of the political paradox of his position. By gently chiding the Massachusetts Governor from the left on such issues as South Africa and military spending, Jackson may be simultaneously advancing the causes he cherishes and enhancing Dukakis' political image. By contrast with Jackson, Dukakis cannot help appearing to be a centrist. As Bert Lance, a longtime conduit between Jackson and the party establishment, puts it, "Jesse gives Dukakis great cover. Dukakis can't have it any better than that...
...recognized for a long time: tobacco, like cocaine or heroin, is addictive. In a no-holds-barred, 618-page report, the forthright C. Everett Koop not only proclaimed that "cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting" but also urged that they should be treated with the same caution as illegal street narcotics...