A recent study at East Tennessee State University found that if you want to get women to stop using tanning beds, warning them about the risk of skin cancer isn’t nearly as effective as warning them about the risk of age spots and other forms of damage to their appearance. The study found that this warning – that tanning might make you less beautiful – was effective even on women who were addicted to tanning, or who were tanning to counteract depression.

Afghanistan is now the longest war in United States history. Soldiers are deported everyday, institutionalized to fight the elusive “war in Afghanistan.” Civilians and villagers are caught between the Taliban and the United States. Often, soldiers are too busy trying to survive to ask the metaphysically political questions like, “why are we here?”

UXO stands for “unexploded ordnance,” also known as the GI resistance movement that, though it already poses a threat to the Washington warmongers, has yet to fully “detonate.”

Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.

Students graduating or looking for summer employment in 2010 are facing the worst labor market in at least a generation, according to Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Young people are often the last hired and the first fired, and state budget crises have seen cuts to programs from MetroCards for students in New York to after-school programs and academic counseling.

Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.

President Obama's announcement that BP would set aside $20 billion in a fund for victims of the Gulf spill is a welcome relief to communities where businesses and homes have been destroyed. The total amount needed to compensate, however, is being estimated at closer to $60 billion. Obama swears the 20 is not a cap -- I guess we'll see. More to the point: Since the president had no legal basis to demand the set aside, on what basis did he extract those billions?

In the wake of the BP oil deluge in the Gulf and the Chevron oil spill in Utah, calls for renewable energy and sustainable living have been redoubled, with even President Obama getting into the act. To see what sustainable living can actually look like, Ben Evans, Julie Dingman Evans and Mark Dixon took a road trip across the U.S. in a hybrid car with only a few rules: they created less than one shoebox of garbage each month, never turned on an incandescent light and used approximately 25 gallons of water per person per day.

The World Cup continues to hold the world's fascination, from vuvuzela jokes to headline-grabbing rivalries, and we continue to bring you reports from GlobalGirl Media, training young women to report from the scene of the games in South Africa.

The BP oil disaster has wreaked havoc on the Gulf of Mexico, but it's also having repercussions across the Atlantic. BP is one of Britain's largest companies, and pension funds invested in BP stock are taking a hit. Ed Pilkington has been covering the story here in the U.S. for the U.K.'s Guardian and has visited the Gulf to look at the spill.