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...evils of ultraviolet are easily escaped. Mrs. Reagan had the right ideas when she resolved last New Year's Day to stay out of the sun. For those unwilling to make that sacrifice, the doctors at last week's conference urged the use of sunscreen lotions, some of which are now formulated to block both UVA and UVB. The Food and Drug Administration has published guidelines recommending a sunscreen of certain strength for each type of skin. For fair skinned people who never tan and always burn (Type I skin), sunscreens labeled with the number 15 are best...
...They are also less apt to irritate the digestive tract. According to Lilly, Oraflex causes 50% fewer gastrointestinal side effects than aspirin. There remains a drawback. In clinical trials, Oraflex caused sun sensitivity leading to an itchy rash in about 20% of patients. This can be prevented by applying sunscreen lotions or even by getting a protective suntan before using the drug...
...face much more lined. His jogging has also caused alterations. Before he started, he carried 158 lbs. on his 5-ft. 9½-in. frame; today he weighs 148 Ibs., a drop that has required him to send his suits out for refitting. Carter now regularly uses a sunscreen lotion to protect his fair complexion. This often leaves his face looking splotchy, says Lukash...
...embassy their target. When Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker opened the white reinforced-concrete complex last September, few American missions ever settled into more seemingly impregnable quarters. Looming behind a lO-ft.-high wall, the six-story symbol of U.S. power and prestige is encased in a massive concrete sunscreen that overlaps shatterproof Plexiglas windows. The $2.6 million building contains such an array of fortresslike features that Saigon wags soon dubbed it "Bunker's Bunker." Yet the Viet Cong attackers gained access to the embassy compound and rampaged through it for 6½ hours before all were killed and the embassy...
Chemical Screen. Popular suntan lotions and creams increase tolerance to light rays by factors of four to six, said Dr. Knox. A cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive...