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Such a beauty contest is precisely what phonemakers are eager to avoid. "There has been huge concern that this could be used for comparison shopping," says Norm Sandler, a spokesman for Motorola, the No. 2 cellular manufacturer after Nokia. To discourage what they call misleading comparisons, the companies will place a statement in boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number...
...ready for a shock. The clerk, instead of delivering a hard sell, will whip out a one-page health-and-safety bulletin that warns of the possible dangers of using a cell phone. The leaflet cautions parents who want phones for their children to consider pagers instead, to avoid exposing the youngsters to any risks. "We try not to take sides in the argument about cell-phone safety," says Mike Scanlon, Metrocall's senior vice president for marketing. "But at least we can make our customers aware of the debate...
...with a specific rebuttal but mostly with complaints about Gore's "phony numbers" and "fuzzy math." Bush's advisers say this was partly a result of who Bush is - "It's not his manner" to rebut statistics with statistics, says Rove - and partly because his debate strategy was to avoid getting dragged into the policy weeds with Gore and instead stay sunny and above the fray. But Bill Bradley tried a version of that during the primaries, not refuting Gore when he hammered Bradley's health-care plan, and by the time Bradley realized his mistake, the voters had written...
...want to avoid any personal attacks. I promise not to bring up your singing," Cheney joked...
...course the leaders of the Middle East are long accustomed to reaching deals over the heads of their chagrined citizenry, and there's no reason to doubt that they'll carefully manage the current enmity to avoid it escalating into a full-blown war. But it's equally clear now that Arafat will feel emboldened against pressure to accept current U.S. and Israeli formulae on the future of Jerusalem. And that, together with the domestic political situation of each of his negotiating partners, is likely to postpone any final accord for months, if not years...