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...Biological Sciences 10: "Introductory Molecular Biology"] principally depends on the sourcebook that I wrote and there is a textbook for supplemental readings," says Richard M. Losick, professor of molecular and cellular biology. "There isn't a textbook that corresponds to the nature of the course; one just doesn't exist...
However, the accusations of rudeness being made against the owners of cellular telephones are often unfair. "They're just showing off," is the charge hurled at people who use their cell phones to do what everybody else is legitimately doing--talking on the bus, making calls from the sidewalk, chatting while driving a car. An expensive telephone might be considered a status symbol--but so are a lot of other things that are less obviously useful yet don't arouse public ire. It should be recognized that the cell phone is just a tool. What determines rudeness...
Like a parent whose toddler is wobbling eagerly toward a wedding cake, etiquette can move fast when it has to. People think they can get away with using their cellular telephones at any time or place they choose, confident that etiquette is too befuddled by this wondrous novelty to set limits...
Other companies are zeroing in on the rich business market. Nextel is wooing corporate customers by packaging radio, paging and telephone services into discount-priced bundles. Controlled by Craig McCaw, who sold his cellular business to AT&T in 1994 for $11.5 billion, Nextel aims to establish itself in regions covering 85% of the U.S. population...
...most ambitious players plan to combine wireless and land-line phones in a single service that will let customers make fixed and cellular calls from the same number. AT&T will test the first phase in Chicago this year. "Any technology that gives customers a choice is good for us," says Daniel Hesse, who became president of AT&T Wireless two weeks ago after Steven Hooper quit to join his old boss, Craig McCaw, at Nextel. The job hopping is one more sign of growing pains in an industry that has bedeviled its customers with too many confusing choices--even...