Word: cellular
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...that is fed up with rigged markets and insider deals. The insurance crackdown was its biggest to date, but earlier in the summer, the Authority slapped $320 million in penalties on eight oil companies for conspiring to fix gasoline prices. Even earlier, it fined the country's two main cellular-phone operators for setting identical prices for fixed-to-mobile calls. The Authority has even taken on Gorgonzola-cheese producers, forbidding them to set production ceilings for individual producers...
Ruvkun believes that the interaction between insulin and "free radicals" may explain its powerful effect on aging. Too many of these dangerous by-products of cellular metabolism can be lethal for an animal, but insulin can cause cells to stop producing enzymes which scavenge free radicals. If this process is turned off, he speculates, animals may live longer because they continue to eliminate free radicals...
...August, Robinson was involved in an automobile accident while conducting a radio interview from his cellular phone and was also pulled over for driving almost double the speed limit in Connecticut...
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...
...culture. The contemporary revision of landscape, they admit, requires an increasing distance from a traditional experience of nature, as well as an exploration of old issues such as the natural sublime. Also, modernity's telescopic ability to travel impossible distances, from macroscopic aerial overviews and topographical maps to microscopic cellular diagrams, must inform the modern landscape image...