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...cocoon of microwave radiation around our daily lives. For the time being, though, the findings are probably most worrying for parents of the 80% of European teenagers who use mobile phones. The Lund research team used young rats (12 to 26 weeks of age), because their developing brains and thinner, smaller skulls are comparable to those of the teenagers for whom phones are a must-have accessory. "Just don't give them to children," says Salford, affirming a message delivered in 2000 by the U.K.'s Stewart Commission on the health effects of mobile phones. So far, however, such warnings...
...although she did not have any data, Fox also wrote that transfers “continue to do very well” here at Harvard. There’s no reason to doubt this. Transfer students beat spectacular odds to arrive at Harvard—odds significantly thinner than those faced by high school applicants. Further, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-73—herself a former transfer to Harvard—told me yesterday that transfers are “some of our best and most interesting and most promising students...
...egalitarian spirit unbroken by success, Panino refuses to take reservations. Instead you’ll meet a well-dressed college graduate in her late twenties, conspicuously thinner than anyone else working there, pen and clipboard in hand. She’ll ask for your name and how many in your party and give you an estimate of the wait that is as attractive as it is wildly wrong...
WOULD YOU PLAY YOURSELVES? Linda: No. I'd find somebody who's far thinner and more beautiful. What's the point in having your life portrayed if you can't have it glamorized? I'd want it to be a Latina actress--Cameron Diaz would be nice. I've never been tall and thin like that. Loretta: I've got a big booty, so I guess I'd have to go with...
...manufacturers will survive the shift to flat-screen technology. The TV business is being revolutionized, and that's "a great thing for our industry," says Bruce Berkoff, an executive vice-president at LG.Philips lcd. But profit margins are getting thinner in the push to lower prices. Ultimately, "very few players will benefit," Berkoff says. For consumers lusting after the electronics industry's hottest product, though, the picture can only get bigger and brighter...