| Mass. officials want to limit time teens spend under tanning lamps
BOSTON (AP) - Tanning booths are the latest area where teenagers need to be protected from themselves, according to lawmakers and health officials pushing legislation they say will reduce the number of new skin cancer cases.
New harsher penalties went into effect this weekend for teenage drivers who speed or drag race on public roads. Now, some on Beacon Hill want to prevent teens from recklessly exposing themselves to ultraviolet rays at an age in their lives when they can be most harmful.
The legislators are slated to testify at a hearing Thursday on a bill that would prohibit youths under 16 years old from using tanning booths and would require parental consent for 16- and 17-year-olds who want an indoor tan.
"Let's not make it so easy for young people to expose their skin to dangerous rays," said Sen.
He cycles for conservation
Nathan Phillips hasn't flipped a switch in his Boston University office for nearly two months. In his zero-carbon office, energy is generated strictly by a solar panel and a bicycle. Phillips burns calories, not carbon, while working on his laptop. With his wife's Raleigh Passage 3.0 bicycle attached to a stand equipped with a small generator, and a large solar panel he installed in February, Phillips, 40, never uses the radiator, air conditioner, overhead fluorescent lights, or wall outlets. In fact, he has blocked all outlets and light switches with plastic covers to ensure that he won't accidentally turn on lights or plug in appliances. For nearly two months, he declares with satisfaction, he has generated zero carbon dioxide, the leading cause of global warming.
Home Show features two TV personalities
Gardening expert Joe Lamp'l of DIY Network and "Trading Spaces" personality Laurie Hickson-Smith, along with chefs, home improvement experts, antiques appraisers and even some pets from the Humane Society, are among the highlights of this year's Courier & Press Home Show. It begins Friday at 5 p.m. at Roberts Stadium, continuing Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets ($5 for adults, children 12 and younger admitted free) may be purchased at the door, with all Fifth Third Bank Jeanie Card holders receiving free admission by showing their card. .
New Bible comes with more than 1000 images with text
Considering all the recent advances in archaeological knowledge of the Holy Land, it's surprising that more Bibles have not incorporated pictures and maps reflecting that scholarship within the text. The newly published Holman Illustrated Study Bible (Holman Bible Publishers, $39.99) offers that, with more than 1,000 pictures, graphics and maps interspersed throughout. Most pages feature art elements such as illustrated reconstructions of biblical towns such as Jericho and Jerusalem, as well as photos of biblical landscapes such as the Sea of Galilee, the Megiddo valley and Cana, olive trees and churches built on traditional holy sites. The reader will be constantly given visual tidbits related to the text at hand, such as discovered ruins from a city mentioned in the Bible.
Talk to the clock because the ISP doesn't care
What I meant to say was that you tend to get obsessed with things that you wouldn't have time to worry about at the office. Like how my Internet service provider has started sticking stupid little advertisements on the bottom of every e-mail I send. It's jarring to write a heartfelt e-mail to a friend in a crisis and realize that, at the bottom, Big Brother has added "Want to learn how to send mail for free AND get videos from across the web?" Pretty soon, they'll be selling the space to that creepy widow in the unpronounceable country who wants to split her dead husband's vast oil well fortune with me. Just yesterday, I was telling filing cabinet that I'm going to fight back. After all, they could put ANYTHING at the end of my e-mail ("Republicans Rock!") and I have no control.
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