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...photographer Dennis Brack, the second most remarkable aspect of taking pictures of U.S. troops in 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...
Here too the sun's ultraviolet radiation plays a role, but apparently a different one. Many melanoma victims have had three or more episodes of severe sunburn and blistering, usually as children or teenagers. Those experiences seem to set off a still mysterious process that results in the development of melanomas years later, often on parts of the body seldom exposed to the sun. Some evidence also exists that heredity plays a more important role in melanoma than in other skin cancers...
...millions of Americans bake on the beaches this summer, many are still blissfully unaware that solar ultraviolet rays can cause something far worse than sunburn. In 1990 some 600,000 new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed, most of them caused by exposure to the sun, and 8,800 will die. The light skinned and fair haired are the most vulnerable, but wearing sunscreens, hats and protective clothing can lessen the risk, especially during childhood and teenage years...
...current era of medical specialization, one rarely meets a man who can relieve headaches, whiplash, knee and ankle aches, tendonitis, toothaches, pre-menstrual syndrome and sunburn...
...addition to the occasional painful sunburn, long-term exposure to the sun, especially between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., weakens the skin's elasticity and brings on premature wrinkling and sagging. Of greater concern, it causes as many as half a million new cases of skin cancer every year. Most of these are basal or squamous cell carcinomas, which have high cure rates. But solar radiation may be a cause of melanoma, which can be fatal. Ultraviolet light apparently weakens the immune system; after a severe sunburn, some people suffer outbreaks of oral herpes or other disorders. Excessive exposure aggravates...