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...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...
...media has been camped out at the courthouse and at an adjacent hotel with nothing to do but report over and over that everyone was still waiting for a verdict. Members of the Goldman family tried to go about their business, but they too were tethered to their cellular phones and pagers, waiting for word. The Brown family was in worse straits, as they lost a bid to stay the decision awarding custody of Sydney and Justin Simpson to their father. Only Simpson seemed to have a strategy for coping with the tension. Fielding media requests for postverdict interviews...
...item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...