Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough to make the most gregarious gabber think twice before picking up the phone again. What if the record of all your personal calls--whom you're talking to, when and for how long--were being sold to the highest bidder, by none other than your very own telephone company? Every time you dial up your shrink for a quick calm-me-down, for instance, that history could be sold to a pharmaceutical firm ready to pitch you on the benefits of tranquilizers...
...what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated in history," Frankel didn't act like someone who had put much thought into avoiding capture. Authorities say he spent several months in Europe as a not-too-bright fugitive, dining out in public and continuing to phone friends and business associates while on the run. Still, until Saturday he had managed to stay just ahead of his pursuers. As Frankel was taken into custody with his companion, an American woman named Cynthia Allison who used the name Susan Kelly, the search for one of the biggest scammers...
Then, Zaheer Ali returned my phone call. But he has a thesis due, too, in Afro-American studies...
...send a flash across our Milky Way galaxy? Without a doubt, says Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who first suggested lasers as a tool for interstellar communication nearly 40 years ago. Adds Werthimer: "They may have stuff out there we couldn't even dream of." O.K., E.T., never mind the phone call. Start blinking...
...York City at the top of the list. Nationwide, almost 5 million children under 12 log on daily; even kids ages 2 to 5 surf the Web, averaging three hours a week. Parents report that kids are more likely to fight over computer time than over use of the phone...