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Since 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...
...much to remove a fatty plaque from inside an artery but rather to convert it from a more dangerous form to a more stable one. This may be one of the reasons a daily dose of aspirin, which is both an anti-inflammatory and a blood thinner, can help prevent heart attacks. But doctors would like to have a drug that targets coronary inflammation more specifically and aggressively than aspirin...
...which indicates the heart's pumping power. A healthy heart registers within the 50% to 70% range. Cheney's is a serviceable 40%. His cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, called that a sign of moderate impairment. Cheney's doctors also announced that for 30 days Cheney will take a blood thinner, Plavix, to prevent blood clots from forming around the stent before it can be covered by the growth of new tissue...
...called Florida for Gore on election night. Imagine if a Democratic secretary of state were determined to use her legendary "discretion" to shut off recounts while her man was ahead. Think what the Bush team could do with material like that. But they've done remarkably well with much thinner gruel...
...plane to the Arctic and look down. You'll see that climatic changes are already reworking the far-north landscape. In the past two decades, average annual temperatures have climbed as much as 7[degrees]F in Alaska, Siberia and parts of Canada. Sea ice is 40% thinner and covers 6% less area than in 1980. Permafrost--permanently frozen subsoil--is proving less permanent. And even polar tourists are returning with less than chilling tales, one of which was heard around the world last week...