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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dizziness can usually be traced to the body's master balance system, the semicircular canals located in the inner ear. This delicate and complicated stabilizing mechanism can be disrupted by everything from viral infections to structural injuries--as well as the slowed reflexes and lowered blood circulation that are a natural result of aging. Nothing can be done about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dizzy Mystery | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...Since cell phones work by picking up on radio waves in the air, these waves are honed in by the antenna which, when held up to an ear while talking, is strategically placed next to the brain. Thus while the unknowing listener converses, an atmospheric cloud of carcinogens is circling around his or her head...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Latest Cell Technology | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...Technology already devised a method to brush away the radio waves and bypass brain cell mutation. For cell phone addicts everywhere, profit-hungry companies have not missed a beat. To combat this medical finding and loss of sales, auxiliary earpiece/headsets accompany most new cellular models. With this little ear-piece in place the phone can be stored in a pocket away from the ear and head area thus reducing the talkers' interaction with killer radio waves...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Latest Cell Technology | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...drawback however, is that when walking down the street with one of these ear-pieces in place, the phone user appears to be a wannabe member of the C.I.A. or is hearkening back to a youthful Spytech fervor. Since the earpieces are hard to see, and cell phone talkers already have a propensity to yell, it often looks as if these people are screaming at themselves while strolling through the Yard. Exacerbating the situation even more are the exaggerated hand motions that some talkers make with their newly freed hands...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Latest Cell Technology | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

WINNER: Williams. His body is fine, and his ear is excellent

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 13, 2000 | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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