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...Many dermatologists are recommending them to patients who want to look tan. The active ingredient, dihydroxyacetone, affects only the outermost layer of skin and fades with exfoliation. One cautionary note: because these products tend to provide little UV protection, they should be used in conjunction with sunscreen...
Logan air traffic controllers had noticed sparks coming from the rear of the plane shortly after it took off, according to Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. A ball bearing, which controls the landing wheels, had failed on the outermost tire on the right side of the Boeing 717 aircraft, he said...
...early shots of the mysterious planet, which is four times as large as the earth, were transmitted across 1.8 billion miles of space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They depicted Uranus as a fuzzy blue-green ball, showed its five known moons and barely discerned the outermost of its dark rings...
...ever written. In the mid-'90s, he came forth with autobiographical accounts of his youth, and then came Disgrace (1999), the tale of an arrogant white academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and relegated to a life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins of the new South Africa. The work was haunted by disillusion and pessimism, and nobody was particularly surprised when Coetzee, now 63, quietly departed for Australia in 2002, leaving some of us asking: Now that Coetzee has left us, is his Nobel really a triumph for the Rainbow Nation...
...produced Age of Iron, with some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In 1999 came Disgrace, the tale of a white liberal academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and finally relegated to a life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins of the new South Africa. The work was haunted by disillusion and pessimism, and nobody was particularly surprised when Coetzee quietly departed for Australia in 2002, leaving some of us mulling a question: Is his Nobel really a triumph for the Rainbow Nation, as our newspapers claim? There...