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Doctors have long known that ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun produces profound changes in human skin. "Even one day's exposure can cause damage," says Dermatologist Fred Urbach of Temple University in Philadelphia. The most insidious rays are the short wavelength UVB, which prevail during the peak sun hours (between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.). But new research has shown that even longer UVA waves, which are present all day, can promote skin cancer...
Nonetheless, profound disagreements remain, most notably on how to deal with gyrating currency values that have disrupted trade and investment patterns. In a speech at the Elysee Palace, French President François Mitterrand, whose government has been shaken for two years by the falling franc, argued for an overhaul of the international monetary system to bring about more stable exchange rates. Nothing so ambitious has been tried since 1944, when representatives of 44 nations met in Bretton Woods, N.H., and established a worldwide system of fixed exchange rates that endured for nearly 30 years (see box). Said Mitterrand...
...have been forbidden in consideration of the victims of Nazi power." In the U.S., historians and social scientists labeled the diaries legitimate news, if authentic, but condemned some coverage as sensational. Concluded Yale University Psychohistorian Robert Jay Lifton: "In the melodrama unfolding before us, responsibility to history or to profound moral questions was lost in the intensity of commercial competition...
Would it, then, be moral to fire nuclear weapons in retaliation against an enemy's nuclear strike? The bishops first endorsed an amendment by Quinn opposing any conceivable use of nuclear weapons. But the bishops later rejected Quinn's wording, preferring to express "profound skepticism" that any use would ever be moral because innocent civilians would be killed in a retaliatory attack...
...view of the enormous timely importance and control power of human values and their critical role in shaping world events, it follows that if science is inherently inadequate by its basic nature to deal with values and value issues, then we are confronted... with what is surely a profound shortcoming in science and all it stands...