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...trade group says is a $5 billion-a-year business. While many go only in the spring to get ready for the prom, more and more are seeking year-round "bronzitude," according to dermatologists, who are alarmed by the risks of so much exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. A survey of nearly 1,300 teenagers in Boston and Minneapolis--St. Paul, Minn., conducted in 2000 by researchers at Harvard and the University of Minnesota, found that 42% of girls had tried indoor tanning...
...consumers are gay, so much the better for advertisers, who have found a way to tap into a disproportionately affluent slice of the market. Consider: Britain's gays - accounting for around 6% of the population, or about 3.6 million - pocket an estimated $130 billion annually, according to a recent survey. Openly gay men in full-time jobs earn $18,000 a year more than the male national average; among lesbians, the premium is $12,000. (It's a similar story in France, too.) Hence, for advertisers - whether dreaming up mainstream publicity fit for a gay audience, or appealing directly...
Another nine percent of respondents to the survey, which polled 2,029 individuals in high-risk hurricane areas across eight Southern states, said they were unsure if they would evacuate...
...week before the primary, as his campaign's internal polls showed the race a dead heat and a published survey gave him a 4-point lead, Reed was assuring friends he would pull out a victory by doing what he had always done better than anyone else: turn out the vote by pinpointing with extreme efficiency the religious conservatives. "I do guerrilla warfare," Reed once boasted to a reporter, describing how he ambushed his enemies as a political operative. "I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body...
...Nazih Gharios, the head of the hospital, took me to the rooftop to survey the surrounding land. "Look there," he pointed to a deeply hollowed out patch of land. "There was the first air strike to hit the area." He was pointing no more than 100 meters away, and he was making me nervous. "Should we really be on the roof?" I asked. After all, Sahal Hospital just 10 kilometers away has been pounded by air strikes. This is shocking to Dr. Gharios, who has seen numerous conflicts in the past. "Hospitals and ambulances were usually off limits," he told...