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...trendiest, Hollywood's Uvasun, such celebrities as Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Mariel Hemingway and even Mr. Tan himself, George Hamilton, spend upwards of $30 an hour to maintain their sunbaked looks. Less exclusive salons charge between $3 and $15 for half an hour in the synthetic sunlight. UVA Tan, located in an upscale Atlanta suburb, expanded two months ago from four tanning machines to eight, serves a free Continental breakfast in the mornings, and had customers lining up outside at 7 a.m. during January's sub-zero cold...
Salon operators reply that tanning machines are safer than sunlight because they can be more carefully regulated. "Anything can be abused," says Randy Novak, owner of Tan Chicago. "But the damage from sunbathing comes from out of doors because it isn't controllable. You can reduce the danger at a tanning parlor." The Food and Drug Administration requires tanning machines to carry labels warning that users should wear goggles to protect their eyes and that people taking photosensitive drugs, including some antibiotics, should consult their doctors before going under the lamps...
...York, he watches a beloved younger brother, "a form of sunlight," dying of cancer and turns away from the unbearable. Morrow also reaches forward, sometimes into the incalculable future, through his two sons. The elder goes to school with the Shah of Iran's son, and the author finds the boy "so like his father . . . all hauteur and vulnerabilty delicately balanced. The Shah and his son, my father and I, Jamie and I: I thought about the tenderness and the capacity for violence in the configurations...
...engineers had to slow down the transmission rate so that information could be distinguished from normal radio background noise. As a result, it took Voyager at least four minutes to transmit a single picture. Then too, the images picked up by the spacecraft's cameras were extraordinarily dim; the sunlight reaching Uranus is only about 1/400th as intense as it is on earth. But computer...
...passed Uranus last week, Voyager looked back at the planet, now silhouetted against the distant sun, seeking to learn more about the rings by observing sunlight passing through them. One early finding: the rings contained far less dust than those circling Saturn. Then, its direction changed by the tug of Uranian gravity, the hardy little spacecraft began a 3 1/2-year trip to Neptune, which it is scheduled to encounter in August...