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...Paananen managed to convince Finnish operator Radiolinja that ring tones could help workers in open-plan offices distinguish their own incoming calls from those of others. So in the fall of 1998, Radiolinja launched the world's first commercially available ring-tone service, allowing users to download songs like Smoke on the Water and the Finnish national anthem. An industry was born, and last year about 2.6 billion ring tones - those musical ditties that sound off when a mobile phone receives a call - were downloaded worldwide, one-third of them in Japan. Delivered by the Internet or text message, they...
...most remarkable feature of the flashy new Sands Macao casino, according to Asian high rollers, isn't the 60-ft.-tall windows or the 50-ton chandelier or even the opulent bar offering 200 kinds of tea (free!). No, for big spenders accustomed to the dingy, smoke-choked quarters of China's only legal gaming district, the highest praise for the first American-run casino goes to its ventilation system. "It doesn't feel stuffy," marvels local resident Tong Tin-Chung, "so you won't get dizzy." And the Sands is offering more than clean air--there are sequined showgirls...
...fire scenes too are unlike anything you've seen on TV or in the movie Backdraft: there are no fireballs--in fact, few flames at all--just a lot of smoke and confusion. That, Quinn says, is closer to fire fighters' real experience--navigating by sound, disoriented and sometimes encountering bizarre scenes, as when Tommy breaks through a door and is jumped by a naked junkie with a baseball bat who thinks he's after money. Quinn says the scene was taken from real life, as was a call Tommy's squadron gets to an apartment building where a tenant...
...also creates a category of patients at "very high" risk--a group that includes heart patients who smoke, diabetics with heart problems and people who are in the hospital for their heart condition. Under the new guidelines, doctors have the option of treating these patients even more aggressively by lowering their LDL cholesterol to less than 70 mg/dL. There was grumbling among some cardiologists who thought that for very-high-risk patients the lower figure should have been made mandatory. It very nearly was, says Dr. James Cleeman, the NCEP coordinator, but the evidence supporting such a move was "just...
Jaroslav Kubera, the 56-year-old chain-smoking mayor of the Czech spa town of Teplice, is a man who likes to live and let live. A bookshelf in his office, for instance, bears a SMOKING PERMITTED sign. But these days a dispute pitting Arab investors against local people is making him smoke even more than usual. Kubera is in a tight spot. On one side are residents trying to stop a hotel and mosque from being built in the ancient resort town (pop. 53,000); on the other, private backers of the project who aim to invest...