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...children's skulls are thinner than those of adults, and their brains smaller, radiation emitted from cell phones can more easily penetrate their heads. A child's brain, a mass of tissue alive with electrochemical activity, is still developing and is thus extremely sensitive to outside interference. Imagine the static you hear in your car radio as you drive past a power line. Similarly, microwaves from cell phones can affect youngsters' brain rhythms. As for whether such microwaves ultimately do the same kind of harm to adults, that remains much in dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones For Children: Are Kids at Greater Risk? | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...MIGHT NOT Art films today are often slow films, and if Yi Yi's pulse were any slower it would merit not a review but an autopsy. At 2 hr. 53 min., it contains many scenes of silent staring into the middle distance--human disasters made statuesque and static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners' Tales | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...paper that sit on shelves anymore. Printed text, which has remained basically unchanged since Gutenberg first got his fingers inky, is about to bloom into a thousand different forms. The one you use will increasingly depend on what you need to use it for. "The tyranny of the static book is over," says Rich Gold, head of the Research on Experimental Documents (RED) team at Xerox PARC. "The digital revolution can incorporate radical new visions of reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Team Xerox | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

With Bush's defenses against the recounts threatening to crumble, Republicans are second-guessing his static, defensive strategy. Instead of running out the clock and relying on Harris, why hadn't his team pushed for hand counts in Republican counties where he might pick up more votes? His aides explained that doing so would destroy his argument against Gore's recounts and that even in counties Bush had won, their analysis showed more miscast ballots came from Democrats than Republicans. Whatever that may say about the aptitude of voters from the two parties, it told Bush's people that demanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Prime-Time Battle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...paragraph progresses, she gradually decreases the spacing between the red words for an effect of velocity and acceleration. The blurred-up effect towards the bottom of each piece gives you a feel of the rush of a hot rod screaming by and definitely disrupts the usual static nature of written text. Prince uses mail-order car hoods to create spare sculptures. They are painted with smooth, pastel shades of lime green and orange, giving the pieces a quiet sense of prettiness that subdues their actual use as parts of flaming hot rods. The contrast is striking and evocative. Finally, Fleury...

Author: By Adrian Foo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VROOM, VROOM: CARS AS ART AND ART ABOUT CARS AT THE ICA | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

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