Word: sars
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...With tunes by the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones forming a ubiquitous soundtrack, "Les Années Pop" is not so much an art exhibition as what in the '60s was called a happening. The sheer three-dimensionality of it - Christo's plastic-wrapped bicycle, César's compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian...
...Foreign Devils comes alive when Holdsworth finds subjects whose lives were changed by Hong Kong, such as Stacy Mosher, an American who arrived "during that golden period when Hong Kong was no longer a colony and not yet an SAR," changed from teacher to journalist and married a Chinese political publisher. Not every expat was as galvanized by Hong Kong as Mosher, but there were enough to make Foreign Devils more than mere nostalgia...
Companies have no intention of playing up the low radiation of some of their models. For example, Nokia's new 8810, sold in Europe, has an internal directional antenna and an SAR rating of just 0.22 W/kg. But David Stoneham, communications manager for Nokia in Britain, denies that the company installed the antenna for safety reasons. Stoneham says the built-in unit permits extended battery life and a stylish design...
...near the radiation source is to the phantom and just where it is pointed. Yet there is no agreed-upon method for conducting these tests--an astonishing omission that the IEEE and its European counterpart hope to remedy this year. "Until there is a single, uniform measuring standard for SAR tests," says Nokia's Stoneham, manufacturers "won't use safety as a marketing issue or competitive element...
...look at its mostly laissez-faire stance toward the cell-phone industry. A General Accounting Office probe is under way, requested last year by two Democrats, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, that is examining such issues as the basis for the 1.6 W/kg SAR standard and the proper role of federal agencies in regulating safety. Says Markey: "It's time that significant public money be devoted to studying the possible health effects of cell-phone...