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Because of their age, their ancestry and their many years in the California sunshine, both Reagan, 74, and Nixon, 72, are typical victims. The risk of developing skin cancer increases with age and years of exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. In the U.S., one Caucasian in seven will be stricken during his lifetime. Skin cancer is hundreds of times more common among whites than blacks and is especially common in those of Northern European extraction, with Irish Americans like Reagan at particularly high risk...
...study the flytrap’s movement, Mahadevan used a high speed ultraviolet video, and then developed a mathematical model to describe the movements. Instead of insects, he used a glass rod to stimulate the flytrap’s leaves...
Brandishing an ultraviolet belt, a chain-knife and a shotgun with an under-mounted stake launcher, Blade vanquishes his foes with a moral absolutism absent from men at Harvard who enjoy “irony” and “satire.” If more men were like Blade then our collective feminine lives would be infinitely superior...
...Office and the Cabinet Room, and past the row of gift saxophones and life-size models of White House pets, Buddy the dog and Socks the cat. Clinton explained that he had approved every photo and every bit of text, and noted such design details as cherrywood trim and ultraviolet lights. The exhibits stress the history that Clinton likes to remember: meetings with heads of state, standing in elegant company at dinners and other ceremonies. Monica Lewinsky, the intern with whom Clinton dallied, gets only a couple of mentions--in text blocks under a section called "The Fight for Power...
...bathrooms are a great breeding ground for bacteria, and so are toothbrushes. No, rinsing them doesn't do much to help the situation. Enter the Violight toothbrush sanitizer, a high-tech toothbrush holder. Pop your toothbrush inside (it holds four), push a button, and the Violight bathes it with ultraviolet light, which eliminates 99.9% of germs and bacteria on the brush within...