Word: sunscreen
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...beds is not only a little ridiculous but also too much of an encroachment of individual rights. People under 18 are already exposed to UV radiation on a daily basis, so banning tanning bed use would be like banning frolicking in the sun for extended periods of time without sunscreen use—a clearly ludicrous idea. To some extent, the absorption of harmful UV rays are a more natural part of our existence on this planet, unlike tobacco and alcohol consumption, so a ban on tanning beds would not be quite the same as taking away a young person?...
...Mayne's Cooper Union building is his first completed project on the East Coast. From the outside its signature feature is a perforated steel scrim that acts as both a sunscreen and an instant attention-grabber. By its folds and slashes it provides a dynamic surface to what might otherwise be a standard stack of offices, classrooms and laboratories. Mayne has played with similar screens in a few recent projects, most spectacularly in a federal office building in San Francisco, where the screen cascades down 18 stories and then spills in long folds across an adjoining plaza, like a metallic...
...added that the causes for the vitamin deficiency are far more complex, including the increased amounts of time children now spend indoors, the widespread usage of sunscreen, and geographic location...
...Taken together, it all makes you think of those wide-brimmed hats that English women wear to the races at Ascot. The stated purpose of the canopy is to act as a vast, three-acre sunscreen, making the plaza a more inviting place to mingle even on hot summer days. The unstated purpose is to give an otherwise highly distilled structure an extra bit of geometric gee-wizardry. Which it does...
...their part, skin-cancer experts recommend that people eliminate the risk of overexposure from the start, by covering up in the sun with long sleeves and pants or at the very least wearing sunscreen. That is especially true on summer vacations, when people who have been indoors most of the year suddenly hit the beach for a week. Melanoma is associated with intermittent exposure to intense sun, particularly before the age of 18, so youngsters need to be extra careful about sun protection, says Robert Dellavalle, chief of dermatology at the VA Medical Center in Denver...