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TANNING SALONS CAN SUCCESSFULLY SPREAD SAFE TANNING CULTURE

Article by Ray James The sun has a tough competition now and hereafter. His monopoly in the area of tanning is fiercely questioned. The indoor tanning industry is marching ahead to an unprecedented boom. It is a gigantic business in USA with over 20,000 tanning salons being opened and established since 1970.When there were a number of research findings suggesting that sun tanning was bad for the skin, that initially provided a boost to the indoor tanning industry. It obviously IS clear that extreme amounts of outdoor tanning are bad of r the skin and cause cancer.Of course there have been similar reports about indoor-caused skin cancer, but there is a definite advantage in the argument in favor of the tanning salons. Indoor tanning often does not lead to the BURNING that can be said to be responsible for much of the damage that eventually leads to cancer and premature ...

INDIA, A CULTURAL ODYSSEY – CULTURAL TOUR OF INDIA

Ercotravels article Travelers over the centuries have written expressions of wealth and culture of India. In fact, historical records are full of well-known writings of travelers, as Megasthenes, Hiuen Tsang and Marco Polo to name a few, who wrote glorified in the country. Megasthenes, the traveler greek, also reported in stunned amazement sites that had met in the third century. While Hiuen Tsang, the scholar-monaco from China, has spent nearly twelve years of Buddhist studies at the University of Nalanda built in 5 th century, such was the attraction of offering the country, even in those days. It 'was the translation made by him to the Buddhist scriptures that introduced people to the Far East to the Buddhist religion, equally inspired by the stories of the 13 th century the Venetian traveler Marco Polo, established trade links with India Portuguese What makes India ...

WOMEN?S STUDY ? NECESSARY OR NOT

What comes to mind when someone mentions women’s studies? Perhaps a course on child nutrition, or a programme on employment generation. Otherwise it invites dismissive responses — isn’t women’s studies quite out of date, with gender studies now the only serious discipline globally? The subject of women’s studies is, thus, invariably surrounded by confusion, condescension or worse. Few are aware of the unique history of women’s studies in India, which emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s, during years of political and social turmoil. A founding generation of teachers, students, young women in the IAS, and activists from different social movements came together in SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai in 1981 for the first-ever conference on women’s studies in India. Over 300 participants hotly debated how women’s lives and struggles needed to become the focus of ...
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