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...special shade of orange that one’s skin adopts after a meeting with a tanning bed is hard to miss. It isn’t particularly appealing, and it definitely doesn’t seem healthy. After all, who really wants to look like Snooki or The Situation from “The Jersey Shore?...
...position. This piece of baby gear is frequently used by a certain type of parent: If you like slings, you just might be a co-sleeper who shuns cribs in favor of plunking the baby in the bed. You're probably a fan of "attachment parenting", which encourages skin-to-skin contact (think breastfeeding and baby massage) and "wearing" your baby. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...
...pretty disappointed, because I thought we practiced well, I thought we were ready. It appeared that we had all our pieces in place to compete with [Syracuse]. We took some really big shots early that didn’t fall, and that got under our skin...
While the desire for darker skin is very different from that for lighter skin, which has deep roots in colonization and slavery, they are both issues with little publicized, problematic health consequences. Many skin-lightening creams contain the chemical hydroquinone, which can lead to cancer, the strong steroid clobetasol propionate, and the poisons mercury and arsenic. Tanning is no better. Even indoor tanning lamps (UV radiation) cause melanoma and squamous cell cancer, not to mention the psychological turmoil of striving for the imagined “ideal” skin color...
That certainly sounds frightening, but few people know, or care, about the side-effects changing skin color. I still know some people who think that this is the key to getting the perfect guy, the perfect life. I know it’s too much to ask society to change racial problems overnight, but there is certainly more we can do. In America, we can at least ask teachers to bring attention to skin-esteem in schools, doctors to look out for their patients, the Food and Drug Administration to regulate dangerous products, the Federal Commercial Commission to regulate commercials...