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...Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas of greatest exposure to the elements. "The visible cutaneous changes usually interpreted as aging," says the report, "are apparently due largely, if not entirely, to sunlight...
Warns the American Medical Association committee on cosmetics: "There is undeniable evidence that the effects of the sun are cumulative and at some point irreversible. The evidence is clear that chronic exposure to sunlight can be one of the major factors in the production of precancerous and cancerous conditions of the skin...
...knowledge is interesting; but to Mrs. Carlson, it means little that two Harvard Medical School researchers studied porphyria patients to find out whether a major change in the porphyrin content of their skin takes place before or after exposure to sunlight. Dr. J. W. Burnett and Dr. M. A. Pathak examined two victims and three healthy subjects, both after long confinement indoors and after exposure to the sun. In the people with porphyria, output of porphyrin compounds rose sharply after exposure to the light; the others showed no change. Sunlight, the doctors concluded, increases the concentration of porphyrin...
...dazzling sunlight last week, 30,000 singing, dancing Africans gathered before Nairobi's Ministry of Works. A great roar went up as two solemn men emerged. One was Kenya's British Governor Malcolm MacDonald, resplendent in blue dress uniform. The other, wearing his customary leather jacket and beaded beanie, was burly Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the man who served seven years in jail as the convicted "manager" of the Mau Mau terrorists, and who only three years ago was denounced by the previous governor as "the leader to darkness and death...
...shot of philosophy: "The world is so full of crap a man is going to get it sooner or later, whether he is careful or not." Then Hud swaggers into the empty house, opens a can of beer, and slams down the shade on the kitchen door against the sunlight of the late afternoon...