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...Sunlight shafts down upon Jerusalem through gunpowder clouds, the city immobile, the sky above in tumbling motion like time-lapse photography. Pure light and Jerusalem stone give the city its astonishing beauty. The dolomite limestone changes miraculously with the light: blind white at noon gone to pink and rose and peach at sunset...
There was no shortage of Yankee ingenuity among the Sunrayce entrants. Each team had to devise its own solution to the basic technological problem of converting fickle sunlight into sufficient electrical power to drive a vehicle across the country. Many came up with bizarre gimmicks that surprised even veteran engineers. The Florida Institute of Technology's secret weapon was a thin surfboard of a car with solar panels not just on its top, but also on its underside, to gather light reflected off the asphalt. Western Washington University built a car with two drivers seated back to back...
...dozen waders and swimmers braving the still frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Around him, hundreds of sunbathers sprawled on the sand. Some, mostly older, shielded themselves from the sun's fierce rays under broad- brimmed hats and umbrellas. But much of the crowd baked contentedly in the sunlight, wearing only scanty swimsuits and little or no sunscreen. At the water's edge, tots played in the sand, some with backs and arms alarmingly...
...affluence of Americans in the years after World War II. That was when they began taking vacations in the Sunbelt and the Caribbean; adopting the sun-worshiping culture, as well as the music, of the Beach Boys; and jogging endlessly in skimpy clothes. Because the effects of sunlight on the skin are cumulative and usually require years of exposure before malignancy begins, the results are just showing up now. The Harvard Medical School Health Letter has neatly summarized the situation: "The bronzed youth of the baby boom, now reaching middle age, are in the vanguard of the melanoma plague...
...altered, causing them to divide uncontrollably and form tumors. The transformation of DNA can be caused by repeated X-ray exposure, burns, infectious disease or frequent contact with certain chemicals. But by far the most common culprit is the sun's ultraviolet light. After years of exposure to sunlight, the damage becomes visible first as small, scaly, precancerous spots called keratoses, usually on middle-aged or older people and in areas of the skin generally not protected by clothing. These spots can turn malignant, becoming translucent basal-cell nodules that slowly expand into adjoining tissue...