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...Kunming, Yunnan The neatly dressed husband and wife are in their 50s and comfortingly average looking. Their once-smooth dark skin is now veined and burnished to a proud sheen, reflecting the decades of hard work they have put into raising a family, earning their salaries and, now, battling...
...when the truth came out. First, a 23-year-old woman named Marie Leblanc riveted France with a horrific tale: six ethnic-Arab and black youths had attacked her on a train near Paris, she claimed on July 9, because they took her for a Jew. They lacerated her skin, shredded her clothes, hacked off her hair, drew swastikas on her body and manhandled her 13-month-old baby while fellow passengers looked away. Appalled, President Jacques Chirac denounced the "anti-Semitic aggression this young woman and her baby were victims of," and demanded its authors be "tried and convicted...
...fancy colored light and shadow-play, the all-new physics models, the "normal mapping" (whatever that is) - but id has created a virtual environment that's more compelling and immersive and realistic than really seems possible. Get up close to one of the demons and look at his skin: it gleams with a dull, matte, scaly sheen that's disturbingly lifelike. Warning: staring at demon skin up close may result in you being gutted like a fish...
From personal experience, Hughes figured there was a niche market. Neither sunscreen nor layers of clothing were enough to protect his sensitive skin when he was just walking down the street or skiing on the slopes. He set out to find a solution. Hughes left his position as a principal in the Northern Group, a boutique Seattle firm, and plowed nearly all his personal savings--several million dollars--into coming up with a better alternative. For two years he traveled, meeting with experts in the fields of skin cancer, dermatology and textiles in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Finally...
...Precautions, based in Everett, Wash.--which produces Solumbra sportswear for men, women and children--is targeting a growing market. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S., and awareness is spreading. The American Cancer Society says that each year more than 1 million new non-melanoma skin-cancer cases are reported, almost 55,000 new melanomas are diagnosed and nearly 10,000 patients die of skin cancer. The numbers are alarming, but care and diligent sun protection can dramatically reduce the risk...