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...tanning industry defends itself by insisting that it's better for tanners to control their UV exposure with a timer in a salon than to sunbathe amid solar-radiation levels that vary not only from day to day but from hour to hour. Industry defenders also point out that dermatologists prescribe indoor tanning--to treat such conditions as psoriasis. "To suggest that there is no safe alternative to outdoor tanning--or that any tanning is bad for you--is ridiculous," says Hollywood Tanning chairman Ralph Venuto. The bottom line, says John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association...
...press conference had been hastily arranged. The plan had been for Rice to leave for Beirut in an hour to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to discuss steps toward a ceasefire. Now, that trip would be cancelled. She had talked to Siniora, whom she described as ?depressed? and ?emotional? over what happened in the village of Qana.? Rice said, ?I called him and told him that I was not coming today because I felt very strongly that my work toard a ceasefire is really here, today.? Siniora, however, had made it clear in a televised address that...
...rubble to a waiting stretcher. The grey dust and earth that matted his hair and caked his body had dulled his bright orange shorts and T-shirt. He was the eighth victim to be extracted from the horrific tomb of earth, sand and rubble in the past half hour, and the fifth child under...
...When it comes to learning Chinese, however, we Japanese have a bit of an edge over speakers of other languages. Thankfully, we use Chinese characters our ancestors imported from China. In fact, on my solo trip there, I managed to communicate with a tea-shop owner for about an hour without talking. We did it, of course, by writing Chinese characters and smiling over cups of tea. Tetsuro Umeji Kudamatsu, Japan...
...arrived. She was visiting with her uncle's family, in an apartment close to some of the heaviest bombing. "A couple of times we were bombed directly near our home - one bomb hit a truck that was parked near our apartment," Hamidi says. This bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi did however make it to her home in New York - via military helicopter, two planes and a Greyhound bus. Shehayeb returned through the embassy...