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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...
...twice as likely as others to choose mifepristone because they considered it safer; white women were twice as likely to use it as nonwhites because they considered it more natural. More educated women chose it because they wanted to show support for broader choices and because they wanted to avoid surgery. Nearly all the women in the study found the drug highly acceptable and would recommend it to others...
...trying to invest around the weak euro, avoid companies with extensive operations abroad. Those tend to be consumer-product giants like Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble, typically thought to be defensive investments. Tech stocks fall into the same trap. Even those without European operations aim to benefit from business there. Your salvation may be in oil, natural gas and electric utilities. Although they've run up, these stocks look best from a risk-reward point of view...
...reducing it to just a few times a year [MEDICINE, Sept. 11]. The menstrual cycle is not a curse, as many women refer to it in jest, but a blessing that enables us, if we choose, to create life. What does it say about us if we wish to avoid one of the defining characteristics of our sex? How out of touch we have become if we begin to think of this natural experience as a burden. KAILIN M. FENN Millis, Mass...