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...Saudi Arabia has been the 115 degrees heat. "I have sunburn on top of my sunburn," jokes Brack, who dutifully applies SPF 39 sun block every hour to little avail. "My warmest situation so far was taking pictures in the exhaust of an F-15 jet under the midday sun. It was so hot, the rubber grips around my lenses started to melt off." The heat and dust have already claimed one of Brack's cameras, and he is well into every piece of backup equipment he brought with...
Geography also plays a role in skin cancer. Equatorial regions, where the midday sun beams down from directly overhead, receive the most intense ultraviolet radiation. Farther north or south, solar rays strike the earth at a more oblique angle, taking a longer passage through the atmosphere, where the ozone layer absorbs more of the ultraviolet light before it can reach the surface...
Activists still maintain that their fight is not over. In fact, they say that each day for the remainder of the year, groups of two students will hold a midday silent vigil outside Clark's office to show that they "will not go away...
Today: Rain ending midday or during the afternoon. Mild. High near 50. South wind 10 to 20 mph becoming northwest 15 5o 25 mph during the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear and much cooler. Low near 30. Tomorrow: Partly sunny. High around...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...