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With summer just around the corner, the pale of face throughout the Northern Hemisphere will soon be hitting beaches in pursuit of a deep, dark and sexy tan. The Victorian ideal of delicate, camellia-white skin has long since been supplanted by the bronzed-god look. But the trend has taken a mortal toll. Sun-related skin cancer is rapidly on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and afflicting younger and younger people. The incidence of the most lethal form, malignant melanoma, though less directly linked to sunshine, has jumped tenfold in the past 20 years. Last week some...
...place but out of a time. They fly in a couple of hours from one season to another: from Chicago's December, say, to Florida's moral equivalent of high summer. Then they fly back into the wan, smudged month that they left, and they are tan. In deep winter, they are exotics walking among all those gray faces at lunchtime like Queequeg on-the streets of Nantucket...
Instead of bringing back a tan and a low-tered handicap, they come home with a few beaten-up bodies--and a hard-fought victory...
...University of Pennsylvania withdrew recognition of the Alpha Tan Omega (ATO) fraternity there last week following an investigation of charges that a woman was gang-raped by members of the fraternity at a party two months...
Emerging after an electronic bathing of the senses, one will want to touch up the summer's fading tan. Switch on the Swiss ultra violet A-ray suntanning machine ($14,500, from Hammacher Schlemmer). Its secret: the unit is the "only machine that filters out harmful ultra violet B and C rays," prevents burning, peeling and damaged skin. Protective reading goggles are provided, along with special gloves that measure skin response to exposure. Just plug into any 110 V-l 115 V outlet. The tan can be shown off at dinner, served on an 800-Ib. table...