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...phone calls from the freeway. It was debated by stockbrokers, real estate agents, Hollywood producers and media Bigfeet. Mid-level executives who wouldn't leave home without a phone in their pocket -- or at their ear -- were putting off calls or finding other ways to make them. Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold...
...cellular phones really cause brain tumors? The safety of the ultimate yuppie accessory was called into question by the news that two prominent executives had been stricken by brain cancer (though the connection to phone use is unclear) and by a well-publicized lawsuit in which a Florida man charged that his wife's fatal brain tumor was caused by her cellular phone...
...wife's death to Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Faith Daniels and dozens of radio talk-show hosts. Sally Atwater, the widow of late Republican political guru Lee Atwater, got half a dozen calls from reporters asking whether her husband's brain tumor was linked to his constant cellular-phone use (she could not say). "It seems like yet another technology that is out to get us," said NBC's chief White House correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, who became addicted to her cellular phone while covering the 1992 election...
Even Wall Street took notice, knocking a couple of points off McCaw Cellular, Contel Cellular and Motorola the day after Reynard's appearance on the Larry King Live show, and then extending the sell-off through much of last week. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association was finally forced to respond, announcing last Friday that it would fund new studies and ask the government to review the findings...
...Cohen, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Dietetics Association, cites the advantages of Vitamin C. "Research points out that it can reduce the seventy of the cold," Katz-Cohen says. "Vitamin C and also Vitamin E can prevent oxidation of certain things like cell membranes, which makes you less prone to cellular damage that causes cancer...