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...your cover story "Holiday on Skis" [Dec. 25]: I do not argue with doctors who deny that the ultraviolet rays encountered while skiing have an aphrodisiac effect. However, the sheer sensual experience of the warm sun, snow spray in the face, weightless microseconds on a mogul, the symphony of wind blowing through pine forests, thrills of speed, danger and precision and not insignificantly, the form-fitting nature of ski clothing create in this skier a desire for more than a quiet evening with a good book...
...legendary ambience of après-ski, which has become something of a hedonistic cliche but keeps attracting people with its roaring hearth fires and hot spiced wine in the lodges, its hard rock and casual flirtation in the bars. Still another lure: some skiers insist that ultraviolet rays from the sun, relatively unfiltered in the rarefied mountain air, have an aphrodisiac effect -an assertion that doctors deny...
...number of comparable competing Burgundies, but mass production helps keep the price about the same. The Gallos have the industry's first winery-owned bottlemaking plant, producing up to 1,500,000 bottles a day-all tinted in shades of green created by Gallo researchers to screen harmful ultraviolet rays. Though the Gallos' oenologists have developed a number of new grape varieties, the company owns only 10,000 of the 75,000 acres of vineyards that it draws upon. The bulk of the grapes are supplied by growers throughout the state under long-term contracts. Much to their...
...distance of some 174,000 miles from earth, Mattingly emerged from the cabin to retrieve cassettes of film from Casper's scientific equipment bay. During the televised "space walk," Mattingly also exposed a small container holding some 60 million microbes-bacteria, fungi, viruses-to the direct ultraviolet rays of the sun. From the test, scientists hope to learn whether intense ultraviolet radiation, as well as other conditions encountered in spaceflight, has any genetic effects on microorganisms...
Research Laboratory, the astronauts took ultraviolet pictures of the clouds of ionized (charged) hydrogen gases that occupy the vast regions between the stars. These observations, which may offer new clues to such questions as how stars are formed, cannot be made from earth where the atmosphere blocks ultraviolet light. In addition, at a number of their stops, the astronauts took careful measurements to augment data about the moon's magnetic field, which analysis of moon rocks shows was once surprisingly strong; the strong field, in turn, suggests that the core of the moon was once molten. Aboard Casper, high...