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Small wonder that consumers are flocking to low-emission cell phones and buying headsets to distance themselves from their phones. It's the same caution that compelled the Walt Disney Co., distressed by reports that phone radiation might be particularly harmful to children (see box), to vow to stop licensing its cartoon characters for use with cell phones "until there is reliable scientific evidence establishing the absence of any risk...
...perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only days before the U.S. presidential election, Russia withdrew from an agreement with Washington to refrain from selling weapons to Iran. The U.S. has yet to react. And the Bush administration's vow to press ahead with National Missile Defense puts the U.S. and Russia on a collision course over strategic arms issues...
...loses, Gore should disconnect himself completely from power for a couple of years--the power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should grow a beard, discard his ego and, for two years, listen to people. He should learn to walk like a normal human being...
...With Gore's prime-time vow to fight on - and Joe Lieberman's morning refresher - still hanging in the airwaves, Bush legal ombudsman James Baker spoke a few words about "19 or 20 days of counts and recounts and more recounts" and how transitions were tougher for the candidate "on the outside looking in." Then he introduced Bush's new legal sergeants to the world...
Gore should disconnect himself completely from power for a couple of years - that power that addles his judgment and scrambles his more decent instruments. He should move far from Washington (not to Tennessee) and find a job among real people. He should take a vow of political silence. He should, for two years, listen to people, and learn to walk like a normal human being. He should school himself in a sort of Japanese self-effacement, learning to describe his achievements as "worthless" or "miserable...