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...worth of charges in two months. Mountain Bell last month suspended the service in Utah until Ultraphone agreed to warn all callers about the fees as they rang on. Two weeks ago Mountain Bell canceled Scoopline in Albuquerque. Ultraphone has offered to provide a 24-hour adult monitor to police the chatter, a solution that seems to be working in Utah. Insists Betsy Superfon, vice president of Ultraphone: "Scoopline is a great way for people to meet new friends." But for youngsters in New Mexico the party is over -- at least...
...adult author attempts the difficult task of recalling a thirteen-year-old's confusion, incredulity and shock at the whirlwind of tragedy which buffeted him. Fact and fiction are inextricably mixed. To patch the gaps in his memory, Maspero reimagines the half-mad atmosphere of a 1944 France through the widening, narrowing eyes of a child called...
...implant fetal cells into adults? Fetal cells, Gale explains, are "immunologically naive": during the early stages of pregnancy, they have not yet developed all the antigens, or distinctive surface proteins, that allow the recipient's immune system to identify and reject them. Another advantage of fetal cells is that they are generally not mature enough to cause graft-vs.-host disease, which can occur when the tissues of a transplant recipient are attacked by implanted adult cells. Also, fetal nerve cells, unlike adult cells, can regenerate and thus have the potential to repair a damaged brain or spinal cord. "These...
Manufacturers say the agency's proposal would put children at greater risk. Without smaller machines, argues Alan Isley, president of the industry's trade group, "parents will ride double with their children or allow their kids to ride the adult machines -- both very dangerous practices." The American Academy of Pediatrics has a different criticism of the nonbinding CPSC request. Last November it called for an outright ban of ATVs for those under age 16. "For crying out loud," says Dr. Joseph Greensher, who chaired the A.A.P.'s study committee. "If the product is bad enough to tell the manufacturers...
...taking courses. "I don't sleep much, I get up before five every day, so I have to keep busy. If you don't keep busy you just die," Matthews says. Besides art courses at the Boston Art Institute, the Cambridge Art Association, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, he has taken courses in art history, anthropology and language at the Harvard Extension School. In his spare time he got an associates degree in business from Newbury Junior College...