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Farfetched as it may sound, it can't be ruled out. Every electrical device creates a certain amount of radiation. Portable phones, remote-control toys and other radio transmitters emit signals that can carry for miles, and their use on planes has long been banned. But most airlines still let passengers use cassette players, tape recorders and laptop computers, which make far less electromagnetic noise...
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, BILL CLINton seemed to emit a five- or six-point plan every time he opened his mouth. As a vote-getting strategy, it worked: he convinced many people that he understood their concerns and had thought hard and developed specific ideas about what to do. But now he is bumping into the fact that some of his pledges were contradictory and others were easier to voice than fulfill. So he faces an unusual number of tough calls that are bound to disappoint some followers and make some enemies. Yet Clinton will have to move fast to begin...
Factories that once resounded to the harsh tympany of steam hammers and hydroturbines now emit only a somnolent midmorning snore. As the gears of a spent nation grind to a halt, the determination and grit once blazing from the face of industrial workers have given way to the tired stare of apathy and depression...
...have created tiny black holes, each about the size of a proton but with the mass of a mountain. Then, upsetting the universal belief that nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole, he used the quantum theory to demonstrate that these miniholes (and larger ones too) emit radiation. Other scientists eventually conceded that he was correct, and the black-hole emissions are now known as Hawking radiation...
...OZONE LAYER THINS, PEOPLE MAY SPEND more time indoors to avoid the skin cancers and cataracts likely to result from more ultraviolet light reaching the earth's surface. That strategy could backfire. Like the sun, the high- intensity quartz-halogen lights used increasingly in homes and offices emit ultraviolet as well as visible light, and there is now evidence that they, too, can cause skin cancer...