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...tanning bed, increases the risk of melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, and teenagers - especially pale-skinned redheads like Duke - are considered among the most vulnerable. In July the cancer-research wing of the World Health Organization (WHO) added tanning beds and sunlamps to its list of human-cancer-causing agents. "The risk of cutaneous melanoma is increased by 75% when use of tanning devices starts before 30 years of age," reads a statement on the WHO website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer and Teen Tanning: Where's the Regulation? | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...question, before you whip out your credit card or start reciting your personal list of affirmations, is, What makes you think unsullied optimism is such a good idea? Americans have long prided themselves on being positive and optimistic - traits that reached a manic zenith in the early years of this millennium. Iraq would be a cakewalk! The Dow would reach 36,000! Housing prices could never decline! Optimism was not only patriotic but was also a Christian virtue, or so we learned from the proliferating preachers of the "prosperity gospel," whose God wants to "prosper" you. In 2006, the runaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

House intramural fanatics may have noticed that over the past month Mather has been conspicuously absent from the competition list. Well, you weren't mistaken...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Mather Will Forfeit No More | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

After Mather's IM teams missed a number of games this season, chaos erupted over the ever entertaining Mather-open list last week...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Mather Will Forfeit No More | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize" but that he would travel to Oslo in December to accept it as "a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He then rattled off a laundry list of problems. Beyond nuclear weapons and climate change, he said he hoped the prize would serve as a catalyst to grapple with the Middle East, violence, poverty, disease and racism. "Some of the work confronting us will not be completed during my presidency," he said. "Some, like the elimination of nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Accepts the Nobel Prize: 'Surprised and Deeply Humbled' | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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