Word: sunburns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herpes viruses hide out in the nerve centers, or ganglia. There they are so quiescent, expressing only five to ten of their 70 genes, that the immune system fails to detect them. Occasionally, for reasons that are poorly understood but that usually involve stress, fatigue, sexual activity and even sunburn, the immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago. As a result, no permanent...
...formed, an ozone molecule is a good absorber of ultraviolet. But when CFCs rise to the ozone layer, sunlight decomposes them, releasing the chlorine they contain. The chlorine is a catalyst, breaking ozone apart without itself being affected. At present, the ozone layer lets enough ultraviolet through to cause sunburn and, in some people, skin cancer. More ultraviolet would increase the effect: the Environmental Protection Agency estimates a 1% drop in global ozone could cause 20,000 additional skin cancers in the U.S. annually...
...Golf!" I was known to exclaim, whenever any of my high school friends dared breach the subject, "Golf is a game played by old men in pastel stretch slacks, whose only evident physical condition is Budweiser pregnancy and sunburn...
...says zinc oxide has to be ugly? This summer the goop that surfers and sailors put on their faces to prevent sunburn can be stylish as well as protective. Thanks to new products called Zinka and Le Zink, zinc-oxide cream is no longer available only in drab white. It now comes in hot pink, deep purple and many other shades, enabling sun worshipers to color-coordinate their noses with their beach balls and bikinis...
...MOVIE DOES HAVE its few funny points, such as Jack's sunburn. After Jack's first day out on the beach, it's hard to tell who is redder, him, or the lobsters he is about to eat. He is so burned that even driving is painful: "I'll be all right, as long as we don't have to make too many turns," he comments...