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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, whatever progress is made during the next few years in fighting skin cancer, the best therapy will remain prevention, especially in childhood and the teens, when most of the damage is done. To Americans long indoctrinated with the notion that a tan look is a healthy look, this means that instead of worshiping the sun, they had better begin respecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skin Cancer: The Dark Side of Worshiping the Sun | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...They were big, fast, blonde and tan...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Aquawomen Place Sixth in First-Ever Bid for Nationals | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Fitting in can be a traumatic, sometimes infuriating experience. Amy Tan, author of the best-selling novel The Joy Luck Club, recalls being ashamed that her homelife was not quite that of her white peers. "The Chinese food was wonderful when it was family," she remembers. "But when my friends came over, I was embarrassed." Selling movie projects in Hollywood, director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Eat a Bowl of Tea) finds some studio executives "patronizing or confused." Says he: "If you speak English with a French accent, they say, 'That's cute.' But if you speak it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers In Paradise | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board were dismayed to read the review of the Experimental Theatre (Ex) performance of Patrick Tan's Straightlines that graced your "On Arts" page on Friday, March 2. Our objection is not with the content of the review itself, but with the fact that the show was reviewed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Review Ex Shows | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

Spring break for many undergraduates means sandy beaches with a sun setting in the distance and tan bodies streched out near the ocean. But for 28 Harvard students, the last week in March will mean a trip to rainy and humid Luxembourg to manage the third annual Harvard Model Congress Europe (HMCE) conference...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Bringing American Government Overseas | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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