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Metrocall may be a maverick in confronting the sensitive issue of potential cell-phone health hazards, but the rest of the U.S. will soon catch up. Beginning this fall, Motorola, Nokia and all other cell-phone makers will bow to mounting concerns about safety by disclosing just how much radiation their phones emit. The once hard-to-find data--measured in "specific absorption rates," or SARs--will come packaged with the latest models, some of which could hit stores by Christmas. That is likely to launch a scramble by concerned shoppers to find the cell phones that...
...McKinnon, Lozano is a lifelong Democrat, who once worked for Ann Richards, the Democratic Governor Bush ousted from office in 1994. After falling hard for Bush, McKinnon helped re-elect the Republican Governor in 1998, becoming one of his closest advisers. Then, in 1999, McKinnon set up a company, Maverick Media, dedicated solely to Bush's presidential campaign. And when he needed someone to answer the phones and handle administrative work, he turned to Lozano, 30, a friend since 1990 who had become close to his family. Although Lozano had worked for a Democratic state legislator as recently...
That faith was placed under severe strain last week as FBI agents concentrated on Lozano and Maverick Media in their investigation of how a videotape and briefing book of Bush's debate preparations were mailed from Austin to an AL GORE confidant on Sept. 13. The confidant, TOM DOWNEY, turned the package over to the FBI immediately. Last week officials revealed that an Austin post-office security camera showed Lozano mailing a package two days before the debate materials arrived at Downey's office. The time of Lozano's visit corresponds to the postage stamp on the package sent...
Agents took Lozano's fingerprints--twice--as well as those of the other five employees at Maverick. And they shipped two computers Lozano had used to the FBI labs in Washington. They interrogated McKinnon and other top Bush officials and suggested in those sessions that the sender of the package might have been working for Bush rather than against him, as part of a conspiracy to sabotage debate negotiations between the Gore and Bush campaigns. "They have a number of theories," said an exasperated McKinnon, "and that's one of them...
...School--student and then family deferments kept him out of the Vietnam draft--he decided, as everybody had always expected he would, to run for office. (At Yale they called him "Senator.") He was elected first to the Connecticut state legislature, which required him to knock off a maverick fellow Democrat in the primary. An early shot at Congress was a bust; he tried for it in 1980, when Ronald Reagan's coattails suffocated Democrats everywhere. But two years later he was elected state attorney general, which gave him the chance to make a name for himself on consumer issues...