Word: cellular
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American University political scientist James Thurber, author of the forthcoming book Remaking Congress, calls politics in the information age "hyperpluralism." He remembers sitting in congressional hearings for the 1986 tax-reform law as lobbyists watched the proceedings with cellular phones at the ready. "They started dialing the instant anyone in that room even thought about changing a tax break." Their calls alerted interested parties and brought a deluge of protest borne by phone, letter or fax. "There is no buffer allowing Representatives to think about what's going on," Thurber says. "In the old days you had a few months...
...early in the week, rose after the announcement. Still, Mexicans remained anxious about their country's fiscal health. Said a Mexico City electronics dealer: "This is a time bomb. People will take to the streets." Hundreds of upper-middle-class housewives did, marching on the presidential residence with their cellular phones in hand and their maids alongside waving banners demanding TRUTH AND DEMOCRACY...
...into one another faster than you can say digital convergence. Telephones are morphing into televisions. Televisions are evolving into computers. Computers are turning into video games. And they're spawning a new breed of gimcracks that fall somewhere in between, from satellite-driven global positioning devices for cars to cellular pagers that beam messages -- Dick Tracy-style -- directly to your wristwatch...
Shaw plans to explore the HIV and CD4 relationship at earlier stages of disease, look at cellular targets that harbor HIV and replicate with varying efficiency, and to evaluate the number of pre-existing mutants...
...concert concluded with a somewhat unconventional musical performance--Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach and Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology and on Chemistry James E. Davis together sang a song about the elements...