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...same time, the pent-up demand for mobile telephones is about to explode. Prospective suppliers have been queuing up at the Federal Communications Commission to provide a novel service called cellular radio communication. Cellular systems, in which a city is divided into honeycomb-like cells, each with its own transmitter, get much more use out of a single radio frequency than conventional mobile phones. Cellular technology is such an improvement over existing techniques that it allows an almost limitless expansion in the number of mobile phones in use. It also increases their range and usefulness. Licenses have already been awarded...
...winner on the over-the-counter market was Millicom, which is involved with the cellular technology that threatens to put a phone in every car. Millicom sold for less than $2 a share a year ago, but it rose smartly. Then last month the brokerage firm of Dean Witter Reynolds began to recommend it. That helped lift the shares to 22 before the brokerage house learned that it could not legally solicit sales in some states. With that, Dean Witter brokers stopped pushing Millicom, and the stock dropped. Millicom still managed to end 1982 at 15, up 728%. Last week...
...Department of Cellular and Development Biology (CDB) has offered tenure to a leading neurobiologist who intends to decide within several months whether to leave his tenured position at Stanford University to come East...
...officials from four other major universities in order to draw up a comprehensive set of guidelines for regulating academic-industrial ties. Most officials feel that the resulting guidelines were left deliberately vague to allow each university to develop its own. As Daniel Braton, chairman of the department of Cellular and Molecular Biology says, "These guidelines are so vague and general that they merely represent an attempt on the part of the administration and industry to avoid getting anything down in terms of firm guidelines for work at universities...
Cherubas and other professors are very optimistic about the future of the Cellular Biology Department, which will be expanding into new lab space across the street when the Biochemistry Department moves into its new building across the street. The CDB department just recruited a new professor in virology and professors hope his appointment marks the beginning of a new era for the field at Harvard...