Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...August abruptly filled with urgent, deadly business and martial noises. August 1990 seemed in a way like August 1914. The President's adamancy in sticking to his Maine vacation (the tense, almost angry flailing at golf balls, the powerboat Fidelity bucking out of harbor, a war getting organized by cellular phone) contributed to an air of the surreal. So did the alien theater of war: the Saudi peninsula's shimmering heat, its lunar landscapes, its customs and culture out of other centuries altogether...
Nobody claims to have created true artificial life -- yet. But some have come intriguingly close. Christopher Langton, a researcher at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, gets credit for coining the term artificial life. $ He was fiddling in the mid-'80s with programs known as cellular automata when he stumbled on a loop-shaped figure that could spontaneously reproduce itself. "That was a watershed," he says. "If you could capture self- reproduction, what else could...
...fact that the government has not taken the issue seriously is part of the problem. In his opinion, the studies linking higher incidences of cancer to low-frequency electromagnetic fields raise questions about the whole electromagnetic spectrum, including radiation from such ubiquitous sources as broadcast antennas, walkie-talkies and cellular telephones. But despite all the warning signs, there has been almost no research on the effects of long-term low-level exposure. "The U.S. has gone to extraordinary lengths not to study this problem," says Slesin. "It's as if we're terrified of what we might find...
Some of the busiest telephone lines these days are those between phone-company executives putting together mergers. Last week the circuits were jammed, as giant GTE announced plans to acquire Atlanta-based Contel for $6 billion and form the nation's largest provider of local service and second-largest cellular-phone company. A shadow was cast over the agreement, however, when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit, charging that insiders had bought Contel stock before the accord was announced...
Last December McCaw Cellular Communications agreed to acquire New York City- based LIN Broadcasting for $3.4 billion. Then in February Contel vaulted from 13th to sixth among cellular companies by acquiring McCaw's Southeastern operations for $1.3 billion. After the GTE announcement, investors snapped up stocks of other likely merger candidates, including Southern New England Telecommunications, Lincoln Telecommunications and Rochester Telephone...