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...Beach Boys; and jogging endlessly in skimpy clothes. Because the effects of sunlight on the skin are cumulative and usually require years of exposure before malignancy begins, the results are just showing up now. The Harvard Medical School Health Letter has neatly summarized the situation: "The bronzed youth of the baby boom, now reaching middle age, are in the vanguard of the melanoma plague...
...exemptions for spiritual healing. While that would be a tremendous blow to the Christian Scientists and other religious groups, it would, say child-advocacy groups, be an important step toward granting the nation's children a fundamental human right. Says Jetta Bernier of the Massachusetts Committee for Children and Youth: "No individual should have to suffer and die because of the religious beliefs of another...
Down deep, what frustrates today's young people -- and those who observe them -- is their failure to create an original youth culture. The 1920s had jazz and the Lost Generation, the 1950s created the Beats, the 1960s brought everything embodied in the Summer of Love. But the twentysomething generation has yet to make a substantial cultural statement. People in their 20s have been handed down everyone else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased...
From the fruitless quest for the legendary Fountain of Youth to the current popularity of plastic surgery and Retin-A face cream, the search for ways to erase the sags and wrinkles of aging has never stopped. Now it appears that a partial antidote to the ravages of time may already lie within the human body. Last week, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that injections of a naturally occurring substance called human growth hormone can firm up skin, build muscles and trim...
MEDICINE: A fountain of youth in the human body...