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...Cedric and Frank Garland sure know how to put a cloud over a sunny day. Since 1990 the two brothers and their research associate Edward Gorham, all San Diego-based epidemiologists, have spread a highly unsettling message: liberal use of sunscreens may actually promote a deadly form of skin cancer called melanoma rather than protect people from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Sunscreens Save Your Skin? | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...worshippers suffer the cumulative effect of overexposure to the type of radiation that penetrates their sunscreen and, the Garlands say, can lead to malignancy. "It's time to step back and to consider whether what we have been doing, specifically the strong use of sunscreens, is working," says Cedric, a professor at the University of California at San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Sunscreens Save Your Skin? | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...another massacre by ethnic Serb forces of some 3,000 Muslims in the city of Brcko last spring. The approaching winter could exact a far worse toll. U.N. relief officials warned that as many as 400,000 people in Bosnia could die of exposure and starvation. Said Cedric Thornberry, civilian commissioner of U.N. forces in former Yugoslavia: "The world is not yet fully aware of the dimensions of what is staring it in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

What next? Cedric McClester, author of Kwanzaa: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Didn't Know Where to Ask, has created Nia Umoja, "an African answer to Santa Claus." The character, who is supposed to represent an African griot, or wise man, wears a Nehru-style suit and joins hands with youngsters to ask what they have learned about Kwanzaa. Says McClester: "Kwanzaa needed a character because we need to attract younger people and their parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tidings Of Black Pride and Joy | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...Moose were plentiful here during the French and Indian wars [between 1689 and 1763]--more plentiful than deer," said Cedric Alexander, chair of the moose management team at the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Commission. "Here in 1990, we've had conditions favorable to moose again for quite a while, and they're reproducing well...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Moose Menace Roads, Neighborhoods, Farms | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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