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...nastier. When Marina, a 25-year-old from Chisinau was met in Budapest by a stocky Bosnian calling himself Ivo, he told her she was too ugly for prostitution and might have to be sold by the kilogram for her organs. Ivo then took her and a friend to a hideaway in northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...with radiation data for individual phones already posted on the Internet www.sardata.com/sardata.htm) manufacturers are bowing to public pressure and beginning to include the ratings--measured in watts per kilogram and known as the specific absorption rate (SAR)--in the packaging with new phones. Says Hollywood talent agent Greg Hughart: "I'll certainly buy the lowest emissions I can find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buzzing About Safety | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...cellular manufacturer after Nokia. To discourage what they call misleading comparisons, the companies will place a statement in boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number below the threshold is safer than any other," says Chuck Eger, Motorola's director of strategic and regulatory policy for personal-communications products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Cell Phones Need Warnings? | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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