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Mariam Jalalzada, also a Fletcher School student, harbors ambitious goals as well—she says she hopes to use the skills learned at Tufts to form an educational institute for Afghan women...
...These students are bringing knowledge to the development of Afghanistan, not force,” Dhillon says. “They are highly motivated, highly educated young Afghans who want to try to use their experiences in a positive way to move forward into the future...
Despite my personal dislike for the salon-tanning phenomenon, thousands of people continue to frequent tanning salons. The government has taken steps to restrict tanning bed use, like introducing a tax on tanning, and the Food and Drug Administration may even go further to ban those under 18 from tanning bed use. While the tanning bed tax is a great step in the right direction towards discouraging people from using these harmful devices, the FDA’s potential ban on minors’ use of them seems like an overstepping of boundaries because of its infringement of individual rights...
...fact, the risk of skin cancer increases by about 75 percent in those who begin use of tanning beds before the age of 30. Skin cancer rates are usually highest in people above the age of 75, but melanoma is now the leading type of cancer diagnosed in women in their 20s in Britain, which provides a parallel rise in the use of tanning beds in people under 30 and increased cancer patient numbers...
...usage of those taxed items. The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation also estimates that the tax will raise $2.7 billion over 10 years in hopes of offsetting some of the cost of providing health insurance for millions more Americans. This sounds like a win-win situation: discourage tanning bed use and decrease the expense of more universal health care...