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...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 300 dermatologists and others gathered...
Those are just a few of the more than 7,000 urgent inquiries received by the National Cocaine Hotline since it went into operation on May 6. Located at Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit, N.J., the toll-free line (number: 800-COCAINE) is staffed by eight trained counselors, several of them former cocaine addicts, backed up by two psychiatrists who specialize in chemical dependency. The response has been so overwhelming that the service may soon beef up its staff and extend its operating hours to 24 a day from the current 17. "The volume of calls has caught...
...there is more to Lucas' bleak expression than weariness or worry. There is a fundamental, existential malaise, and as he describes it, the telling of the Star Wars saga has taken a terrible toll on him. "The sacrifice I've made for Star Wars may have been greater than I wanted," he says. "After Graffiti, Star Wars could have gone in the toilet and it wouldn't have mattered financially. It's an interesting choice I made, and now I'm burned out. In fact, I was burned out a couple of years...
...military intervention is no game for the squeamish. If Democrats are scared to take a stand against interventionism in Central America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...
...crowd of protesters, agitators lashed out, clubbing and punching the marchers. Angry demonstrators retaliated, hurling rocks at the police. Within an hour, the rioting spread throughout the center of the city. It took two hours for the police, equipped with tear gas and truncheons, to regain control. The toll: 72 injured and 76 arrested...