Word: cellular
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...Kirby keeps uncovering new things and changing his views,” says Lee Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Thomas P. Maniatis. “He is very engaged and frequently meets with department chairs and other members of the department...
ROBERT A. LUE, Senior Lecturer Molecular and Cellular Biology...
...pedophile network operating in state-run children's homes known as Casa Pia. Also placed in preventive detention was Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to South Africa, along with a doctor, a lawyer and a TV anchorman. The arrests came after police used controversial powers to tap the cellular phones of prominent opposition politicians, including Pedroso's mentor, Socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, and Antonio Costa, head of the party's parliamentary delegation. Under Portuguese law, the police are allowed to listen in on anyone's phone conversations with special judicial permission, if they believe doing so will help solve...
...weeks after U.S. forces took control of the city, Baghdad remains dangerously unstable: The electricity supply is patchy; there is no working landline- or cellular telephone system and therefore very little communication; political and criminal gangs still control much of the street - 240 Iraqi civilians were reported killed in the city in the first three weeks of occupation - and looting, car-jacking and revenge-killings continue; U.S. troops untrained for the job have been forced to function as policemen even as some hostile elements in the population are firing on Americans; and the political temperature is rising as Iraqis...
...Baghdad's Outer Karada street, immense satellite dishes sell like bread - as the Arabic expression goes - demonstrating a hunger for information that has also prompted a booming market for local and international newspapers. Baghdad may be the world's only city of more than 5 million inhabitants without a cellular phone system, but that will come soon - and every household that can afford them is sure to have several. For now, Iraqis desperate to tell family and friends that they are safe must plead with journalists for a few minutes on their satellite phones, or pay $10 a minute...