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...some on that morning, even though they would be indoors most of the day. But the most urgent and unanimous recommendation was to protect the skin of young children. Though skin cancer may not show up until age 50, the initial damage is done in early childhood, says Dermatologist Isaac Willis of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Indeed, most of a life time's sun exposure takes place by age 30. By the time wrinkles appear, the damage is done. - By Claudia Wallis...
...city in America, whatever the size. Uptown and down, there are plenty of racial stereotypes to go around. One that dies particularly hard for downtowners is that when uptown kids dress to chill, they turn themselves out like some wild amalgam of Cab Galloway going for broke and Isaac Hayes going to a gogo. That is inaccurate, but it does have one small home truth: musicians, more than anyone else, set the style, just as, this minute, rap music is setting the beat...
...Thirteenth Tribe (1976), Koestler argued that many Eastern European Jews were descended not from the ancient Semites but from a Turkic national group in Eastern Europe that had converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages. Isaac Bashevis Singer replied, "[He] tries so hard to show that the Jews are not even Jews, he fails also as a writer." Science Writer Martin Gardner, reviewing The Roots of Coincidence (1972), taxed the author with ignoring research that contradicts the claims of parapsychologists. Even Koestler's monumental and erudite The Act of Creation (1964) caused the eminent zoologist Sir Peter Medawar...
This said, one must still allow for that rarest kind of consistency that is neither funny, dull, hazardous nor stifling. Call this the sublime consistency, which, instead of delimiting the truth enhances it - the consistency of an Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Alec Guinness or Isaac Stern. But then, life itself has been inconsistent in producing such consistent pleasures. And once in a while, a consistency comes forward that is both sublime and foolish, that of Don Quixote, for instance, who mounted his premise and stayed the course, eventually proving less mad than inspired...
Were it not for the work of Economist Isaac Ehrlich, the deterrence debate would be entirely one-sided. Using econometric modeling techniques to build a "supply-and-demand" theory of murder, Ehrlich argued in a 1975 paper that capital punishment prevents more murders than do prison sentences. Because of the 3,411 executions carried out from