Midnight's children: kids suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum are so sensitive to sunlight that they must spend their entire lives shrouded in darkness
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Xeroderma pigmentosum victims cannot repair skin cells hurt by UV light. The plight of children with the disease, and their fight to prevent sunlight from provoking skin cancer, is analyzed.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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An enfant terrible at 70
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Godard is disappointed with current French cinema, calling it 'homogenized'. His latest work, 'Eloge de l'Amour,' is just as unabashedly political as ever.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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