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...Garlands admit that sun blocks filter out the most damaging solar rays and prevent sunburn. But that allows fair-skinned people to stay on the beach or golf course longer than would otherwise be tolerable. Lulled into a false sense of security, these sun 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...
...trap the President for a minidrama on the nightly news, while he arms himself to deflect their barbs or smother them in warmed- over words. A game is afoot. This round went to Bill Clinton by an Arkansas mile. Next time . . . well, given the President's determination not to filter his proposals through the contentious corps, next time may be many months away. Then there is the thought that this ritual ought to expire, as a great dinosaur should...
After the sedimentation process, water is strained through a filter basin containing and mixed with a carbon compound...
Christopher has opted to install a ten-stage filtration system to purify the water for the patrons of his Porter Square eatery. He describes the matter collected in the filter as "what you would expect to see at the bottom of a pier--fuzzy, mangy...
...saving grace of the new technology is that the computer intelligence used to find you in the trout stream can also be used to filter out unwanted messages. Users can instruct their computer to give top priority to urgent messages from family members and to reroute all calls from a particularly obnoxious sales representative. "The idea is to create a permeable wall between work and your private life, between the inside and outside world," says Release 1.0's Michalski. And if that fails, you can always forget to recharge the batteries...