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...will come soon enough). No matter how the mail arrives, says Rodger Popkin, president of the American Camping Association and co-owner of Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, "if we're doing our job properly and children are thriving in camp, the news from home is just a blip on their screen...
...Bush's personal mojo, this was also the week Bush's agenda could have used a more agnostic spotlight. With ex-White House counsel Beth Nolan's piano-key smile lighting up CNN for days on end, Bush's two-day, five-state sales tour made barely a blip on the cable-news radar, and when the Pardongate hearings took a break, there was Greenspan before the House for two mornings this week. And besides hogging the airwaves, the Fed chairman has of late rediscovered his gift for burying his soundbites in a pile of qualifiers - just when the Bush...
...government's safety standards, which the Federal Communications Commission adopted in 1996, they amount to a bundle of compromises that date back to 1982, when cell phones were barely a blip on anyone's radar screen. Researchers found at the time that they could degrade the performance of laboratory animals by bombarding their bodies with 4 W/kg of radio waves. To adapt this to humans, engineers first divided 4 W/kg by a safety factor of 10, and later by a factor of 5, and came up with .08 W/kg. According to a scientific rule of thumb, that is the equivalent...
...some Tuesday soon, we'll all stroll into spacious well-attended polling places, after a nice breakfast with the family, talking politics, and swipe our voter-ID card and blip in our candidates and press enter, and go home feeling confident our vote's been cast, whistling a happy tune...
Donna Campbell, a University Health Services (UHS) infection control nurse, said there were 20 reported student cases of chlamydia in 1999 and 16 so far in 2000, along with 9 student cases of gonorrhea in 1999 (considered a "blip") and only 2 this year...