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Whether you're headed for the beach or the lake, or whether you just plan to hang out in the backyard this summer, you probably already know how to protect your skin against the sun's harmful rays. Just slip on a shirt, slap on a hat and slop on plenty of sunscreen, preferably with an SPF rating of at least 30. But are you doing everything you can to safeguard your eyes? Don't be so sure the answer is yes, even if you sport the latest in designer sunglasses...
Many shades on the market don't fully block the two main types of ultraviolet radiation (A and B) that have been linked to everything from wrinkles to sunburn to skin cancer. Ophthalmologists are increasingly convinced that prolonged exposure can lead to a host of vision problems as well...
...tools was a much higher level of sociability?sharing food, helping one another in tasks such as food collection?than is usual for orangutans. That in turn speaks volumes about how human cooperation was nurtured by natural selection, how hominids working together with their chipped flints to skin animal carcasses blossomed into the builders of pyramids and space shuttles...
Dick Cheney called it a "pacemaker plus," but the pager-size device that was tucked under the Vice President's skin and wired to his heart Saturday morning might just as accurately be described as a "defibrillator plus" - a portable E.R. that can, if necessary, jump-start the heart like the big electrical paddles that appear with such regularity on TV hospital dramas...
...life, Lemmon became one of American cinema's grand old men, almost by default - all his first bananas had long since left us. And as those small yet bottomless eyes became beveled-off with crinkled skin, that look - plaintive, pleading, pathetic - never left them. His biographer was convinced he knew...