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...following basic sun-exposure precautions, especially for our children. That's evident from the results of a new survey by the American Academy of Dermatology. It shows that 13% of youngsters age 12 or under have experienced at least one sunburn and that 24% of parents admit they have never used sunscreen to protect their kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Season | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...reluctantly left my son there and worried all weekend about his being supervised by that group of "morally straight" men. I would have been far happier to have him in the care of a responsible gay scoutmaster like James Dale [who is suing the Boy Scouts to admit openly gay men and boys]. I think if the personal lives of all scoutmasters were scrutinized, we would find that Dale is probably "morally straighter" than most of them. JAMES A. PASCHEN Mequon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...fustest." The Army has a cold war hangover: the war machines of a U.S. armored division tip the scales at 300,000 tons. It took the molasses-like movement of the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopters to Albania during last year's Kosovo conflict to make planners publicly admit this is no way to fight a war in the future. "Our heavy forces are too heavy, and our light forces lack staying power," General Eric Shinseki declared as he assumed command of the Army last year. To make the U.S. military lighter--but still lethal--Shinseki and other Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be The Weapons Of The Future? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...changing. What is changing is that people are at last beginning to act in a rational way. They are bidding up the prices of stocks because, my gosh, stocks in the long term are no riskier than bonds...They have learned something about stocks, which I think Bob would admit and we certainly believe is true. For all these years, they have acted in a kind of irrational way. Now they have learned something, which happens to be true, which is that in the long term, stocks are not all that volatile, and they return more than bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Dow Ever Hit 50,000? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

When Daniel Z. Levine '03 started his summer internship in Washington, D.C. he was still waiting to hear whether Harvard would admit him to the Class...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deferred Admits Tell Their Exotic Tales | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

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