Word: cellular
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...think of bones as inert objects whose only job is to keep our bodies from collapsing into a puddle of flesh. But bones are actually quite active tissues, constantly building and rebuilding themselves from the inside out. Anytime you break a bone, the body produces repair proteins that direct cellular activities as the bone knits itself together. When investigators take these so-called osteogenic proteins and sprinkle them on laboratory samples of damaged cartilage, the cartilage begins to repair itself...
...only way tower builders are moving into cell-phone-rich, aesthetically guarded communities is through camouflage. Sprint PCS recently agreed to pay an estimated $150,000 to fix up--and wire up--a century-old windmill in a ritzy section of Fairfield, Conn. The mansions there have lousy cellular reception because well-heeled neighbors don't want a tower in their backyard. "We've got millionaires sitting in their driveways just so they can use their cell phones," says an exasperated resident...
...number of so-called stealth towers, which have been around for a decade, has doubled since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 first prevented local jurisdictions from shutting out wireless carriers altogether. Of the roughly 128,000 cellular-antenna sites in the U.S., about 75% are mounted on towers in the traditional (read: ugly, obtrusive) sense. The rest have been tucked inside steeples and flagpoles, on rooftops and water towers and in giant fake trees adorning rarefied real estate from Virginia's Mount Vernon to California's Hearst Castle. Even Pebble Beach's hallowed golf course is reportedly considering installing high...
...biggest money-maker for cities could come with a system upgrade to third-generation (3G) wireless technology (if and when that happens). To fill in cellular-service gaps and accommodate massive data transmissions, antennas will need to be closer to the ground and to one another. Utility poles are already home to thousands of bread-box-size microcells in California. And as every streetlight becomes a possible antenna site, Kreines wants wireless providers to pay local jurisdictions for using the right...
...said the risk people face when drivers use cellular phones is fairly small...