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...Western" doctor from India, I am appalled by this. Technology may be vibrantly alive in the U.S. - cell phones and laptops are everywhere - but faith in the science that produces this technology has weakened in the past decade. Evidence ranges from the proliferation of street-side palmists all the way to the White House: in 2005, the religious fundamentalists who oppose Darwin's theory of evolution got a boost when President Bush suggested that American schools should have the freedom to choose instead to teach intelligent design - a slick, pseudoscientific version of Biblical creationism. To a visitor from the supposedly...
...those annoying motorists with his hand cupped to his ear yakking away on a cell phone - and you know who you are - better be careful where you're driving...
...This month, California and Washington State joined Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia in enacting laws prohibiting driving while talking on a handheld cell phone. Motorists who want to gab on the phone in those states are required to use a hands-free device - a wired headset, wireless earpiece or speakerphone - that lets them keep both hands on the wheel...
...Prohibiting a single act like talking on a handheld cell phone may sound simple enough. But keeping track of the confusing patchwork of cell phone laws around the country is enough to drive motorists to distraction. For example, if you're driving by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., you're required by law to use a hands-free device while talking on your cell phone. A minute later, as you cross the Memorial Bridge into Virginia, you're free to put the phone back up to your ear. In New York, an officer can pull you over simply...
...here is a simple test to tell if a thing is alive. Put it in salty water. Some things, like babies and crayfish, will do well. They get bigger, stronger and more organized. Others, even "smart" things like iPods and cell phones, laptops, cars and TVs, stop working immediately. They rust and decompose. (I know because I've dropped most of these things in.) Inanimate things, including, alas, my boat, naturally fall apart. They are obeying a law of nature. The salty water just makes them do it faster...