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| Honors Satellite Seminar 1
September 28, 2004 Topic: (Mis)understanding History: Shaping Modern Myth and Popular Values Honors Satellite Seminar 2 October 12, 2004 Topic: Creating and Marketing Youth: Youth Music and Culture in 20th Century America Honors Satellite Seminar 3 October 26, 2004 Topic: The Empire of Images: Growing Up Male and Female in a World Dominated By Popular Culture Honors Satellite Seminar 4 November 9, 2004 Topic: Courting Disaster? Changing Values about Love, Sex and Marriage MISSOURI REGIONAL HONORS INSTITUTE: November 12-14, 2004, at YMCA of the Ozarks, Trout Lodge in Potosi, MO. Co-hosted by Xi Epsilon (SLCC at Forest Park), Alpha Xi Chi (St. Charles Community College), Pi Kappa (SLCC at Florissant Valley), and Xi Lambda (SLCC at Meramec). Honors Satellite Seminar 5 November 16, 2004 Topic: Sports in Popular Culture: Are We Winning or Losing? |
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| Tanning�Indoors and Out�Linked to Skin Cancer
Tan or Burn: The Connections with Skin Cancer Get Stronger How to Protect Your Skin In the year since Americans last swarmed the beaches on summer vacation, scientists have uncovered more proof that UVA rays from the sun and from tanning devices raise one's risk of developing skin cancer. This and other new findings confirm what dermatologists have long said, that you don't need to burn to permanently damage your skin�just tanning does the job, too. The strongest new evidence against indoor tanning comes from Scandinavian research about melanoma published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Vol. 95, No. 20: 1530-1538). In that study, researchers found that: Women who tanned in a salon once a month or more at any age had a 55% greater risk of melanoma than women who didn't visit tanning salons. Melanoma risk was 2� times greater for women who visited tanning salons at least once a month between the ages 20 and 29 compared with those who didn't. Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, now strikes twice as many Americans as it did 30 years ago and is still on the rise. Increased exposure to UV light is probably responsible�but it's been difficult to prove without a large, long-term, prospective study to ferret out each possible cause of skin cancer. With the Scandinavian study, health experts finally have solid research that looks separately at the use of tanning devices, sunbathing, and sunbathing vacations for more than 100,000 women in Sweden and Norway over about 8 years. Is There a Safe Way to Tan? While researchers seek science-based answers, tanning salon operators freely claim their equipment provides a "safe tan" or a "base tan" that can protect people from later sunburns. And from the teen years through their 20s, young women seem to be buying it. A recent study showed that by age 19 nearly half (47%) of white women had used a tanning booth three or more times. |
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