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...studying to become a psychotherapist at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, Calif., takes a rather odd precaution while talking. "I always switch the phone from one side of my head to the other, so I can equalize the radiation," she says. Glenn Wilson, a truck driver in Oak Park, Ill., is worried about cell-phone radiation too. He uses a hands-free headset to divert radio waves away from his brain. "I try not to put it by my head anymore," Wilson says. "The headset is always with...
Ranger George knows every inch of his acreage. His arm shoots out to point at the different kinds of oaks, the elm and the hackberry. There's an overwhelming brownness as you look out over large portions of his land, which have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves...
...cedar that is vexing him now, the clotting underbrush that chokes the majestic old oak and elm hardwoods. "When it is cleared, you'll have the full effect of the amphitheater," he says, sweeping his hand across the long ridge of limestone that leads to the waterfall. "I'm making the case for my cedar-eradication project," he says, pointing out yet another patch of the annoyance long after he needs to make the case...
Perhaps like many consumers, John Benjamin, 36, a credit analyst from Oak Park, Ill., is experiencing the new wealth defect. He plans to shell out 30% less for gifts this year. "My spending habits are correlated to the performance of the market," he says. Others' behavior is correlated to their credit-card debt--and after a decade of buying, and saving next to nothing, Americans are cleaning up their balances...
...again, would we fight the lines at our voting station as we did that Tuesday morning? The laws and statutes established to decide the outcome of a close election obviously carry no weight for either candidate. Let the people's voice be heard. TRACI ORTIZ Royal Oak, Mich...