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...determine how cancer-savvy the U.S. public is, Stein and his team created 12 false or unsubstantiated statements about cancer risk and risk factors, then asked nearly 1,000 U.S. adults by phone whether they believed the statements to be true, false, or if they didn't know...
Nearly 30% believed this, although there is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove the relationship between cell-phone use and brain cancer. The National Cancer Institute continues to study any possible links, but they note that the rapidly changing technology of cell phones (newer phones emit less potential cancer-causing radiation than older models) and the difficulty of documenting the duration of people's exposure could make a definitive answer difficult...
...found in the U.S., starting with the potholed, neglected highways near the Detroit auto factories that put America on wheels in the first place. On trains zipping past Indian fields, passengers surf the Internet on their laptop computers. On subway cars deep underground in China, riders chat on cell phones. Not in America. Indeed, Intel and other companies have hired Chinese researchers to work on the next generation of cell-phone and mobile Internet technology because Chinese workers are already using cutting-edge services and technology unfamiliar to Americans...
...that much each year-but they don't. Sometimes it is easier to put things in perspective from the other side of the world. "It is not the best feeling in the world to know that I'm taking away someone's job," said Sheelan Chawathe, who answers the phone for Delta Air Lines in Mumbai. He offered some advice: "Stop trading in your car every year and a half, and cut down going to Applebee's seven days a week to once a week. If you cut back, you can keep a pretty high standard of living...
...closer look at the group's campaign suggests that it has both substance and significant promise. Four new host congregations will announce themselves in August, and more are in the pipeline: NSM has received hundreds of calls from interested congregations and participated in 33 phone conferences and 15 visits working out the details. The movement draws from an actual grass-roots network but has also garnered support within bodies as big as the United Methodist Church. Its solid biblical underpinnings make its issue particularly promising for the resurgent religious left, and it may peel conservative Protestant Hispanics from the right...