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Copycat class action bites dust
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1428839.html Copycat class action bites dust Mr. Justice George Strathy of the Ontario Superior Court has sent a strong message to class-action wannabes who think U.S. cases can easily be carried across the border. Last week Judge Strathy dismissed two proposed class actions against Playtex Ltd.… continue reading
Tell Harry No Tan Tax!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Headline Story at SmartTan.com U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was part of the back-room midnight deal that put the proposed 10 percent “Tan Tax” into the senate version of health care reform. Want to let Harry know how you feel about that?… continue reading
Nicola Roberts Tackles Tanorexia in New Campaign
Monday, January 11, 2010
By Elena Gorgan, Life & Style Editor
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nicola-Roberts-Tackles-Tanorexia-in-New-Campaign-and-Show-131654.shtml
Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts is perhaps most famous for her fiery red hair and porcelain skin but, as fans would know, she wasn’t always this fair-skinned. A few years back, Roberts was a tanorexic herself, making sure she worked daily on her fake tan, just like the other members of the band.… continue reading
Columnist Calls for Regular Sun
Monday, January 11, 2010
Headline Story from SmartTan.com
A financial services columnist this week penned a strong essay urging everyone to question the ignorance of “the ‘consensus’ on sunlight exposure (which) has badly misled us towards vitamin D deficiencies.” Patrick Cox, a columnist for Agora Financial, wrote a comprehensive essay echoing Smart Tan’s contention that anti-sun advice would be completely flip-flopped if the phramaceutical companies behind the message could sell sunshine.… continue reading
Solar UV Geometric Conversion Factors: Horizontal Plane to Cylinder Model†
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Stanley J. Pope 1 and Dianne E. Godar*2 1 Sun Systems & Svc, Inc., Oak Park, MI 2 U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration, Silver Spring, MD *Corresponding author email: Dianne.Godar@fda.hhs.gov (Dianne E. Godar)
The mention of commercial products, their sources or their use in connection with material reported herein is not to be construed as either an actual or an implied endorsement of such products by the Department of Health and Human Services.… continue reading
