Word: cellular
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Imagine if every time you took to the road, 35 million of your fellow drivers were legally drunk. That's not likely, but it is possible they're doing something nearly as dangerous as drinking: talking on a cellular phone...
...plaque clusters around degenerating nerve endings during the early stages of the disease. However, numerous other cellular changes must take place to degenerate the nerve endings, thus leading to true dementia, he says...
...stuck in myth, pseudo-science and the danker parts of the psyche. Cose quotes anthropologist Ashley Montagu, who more than 50 years ago wrote, "'Race' is the witchcraft of our time. The means by which we exorcise demons." Modern biology takes a similar though less dramatic view. At the cellular level, characteristics such as head shape or skin pigmentation are considered superficial variations in the species. To a geneticist, color-coding Homo sapiens looks more like a cultural than a scientific imperative...
...Misha Became a Businessman, tells the story of a simple but industrious bear who opens a...store in the forest. His sole competitor is described as Winnie the Pooh's Over-priced Golden Beehive Cooperative, and Misha soon trades his apron for a three-piece suit and a cellular phone to become the forest's first tycoon...
BOSTON: A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that talking on the phone while driving is nearly as dangerous as driving drunk. The study, which was conducted in Canada, found that using a cellular phone increases the risk of an accident fourfold, the same as driving while intoxicated. And it doesn't matter what kind of phone it is. The results were the same with a hands-free model as with standard hand-held telephones. The study did note that the phones provide some safety benefits. Nearly 40 percent of those surveyed used their phones to call...