Word: sunlights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though rarely fatal, the sun-induced cancers often require surgical removal. In all, estimates Dr. Wilson, "thirty percent of the practice of dermatologists is treating skin changes that have been brought about by sunlight...
...fact, is the result of a dark pigment that rises from mid-level layers of the skin in an effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight had been publicized as a treatment for tuberculosis. It does indeed increase body production of Vitamin D, which helps control TB, but it has no other beneficial effects except occasional help for a case of acne or psoriasis...
Sitting in the sunlight, says Dr. Wilson, is good only for plants. "If you don't have chlorophyll in your veins and arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most...
...eclipse photographs showed the earth silhouetted against a crescent of sunlight stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. From this and other eclipse pictures, astronomers hope to learn more about the characteristics of backlighted terrestrial atmosphere as a guide for studies of the atmospheres of other planets...
Sails for Sunlight. The Genoese have been loath to change their ways even in the face of economic decline. Today, the city's richest businessmen still walk to work rather than buy automobiles; only recently did the last of them abandon the electricity-pinching practice of using white sails to reflect sunlight into their musty offices. Until a new auto strada is completed in 1970, the main stretch of road along the tourist-heavy coastal route between Genoa and the French frontier will remain the two lane Via Aurelia, built by the ancient Romans. Whenever somebody suggests expanding...