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...happy chance, warthogs and meerkats also make neat zoo animals. Unlike most desert creatures, including lions, both are busy during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City...
...lack of moral obligation is not restricted to tobacco companies. Companies which in recent years have focused on making sunscreens now realize that teens don't care about potential sun damage. This year they are marketing new suntan oils and lotions without sunscreen. Twenty years later we may start to see lawsuits from the tanned teens of today who foresee skin cancer in the forecast of tomorrow. That is the danger, unless, of course, the country looks ahead to protect its future...
...true -- sunscreen does provide measurable protection from the harmful effects of the sun. An Australian study showed that people who use SPF 17 sunblock develop fewer precancerous lesions and are more likely to have existing lesions heal than people who used no sunscreen...
Like the Germans. To the less fortunate, the Germans live in paradise. They have achieved a miracle of high income and productivity with the fewest work hours. They love time off, especially at vacation spots that require a minimum of clothing and a maximum of sunscreen. They shop madly and stand in long lines at the cheese counter, are figure conscious and sports crazy, and see their doctors regularly. But if you ask a German how he's doing, the response is a shrug...
...part of the spectrum.) Since no animals other than humans and opossums suffer from malignant melanoma, researchers still do not know exactly what causes that more deadly disease. Most dermatologists have long assumed that sunburn-causing UV-B must be a greater threat than UV-A. As a result, sunscreen manufacturers originally concentrated on blocking UV-B. The most powerful formulas, developed in the past decade, have provided some protection from...