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...turns out all that paranoia may have been for naught: According to two studies released this week, there does not appear to be any direct causative link between cell phone use and the development of brain tumors - no matter how extensive the phone use may be. "We found that regardless of how frequently the phones were used per month or how many years the phones were used, there wasn't any relationship with the development of brain cancer," Joshua Muscat, chief author of the study, said Wednesday. The first report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...safeguards, which President Clinton announced Wednesday, are the result of years of discussion - in Washington and among the nation's consumers - over the best way to keep private medical records private in an increasingly public-access world. When the rules, which were initially mandated by Congress, take effect in two years, every patient will be able to decide who sees his or her history; without specific written consent from the patient, the records will be out of reach...
...Bush-Cheney transition team has moved at lightning speed identifying and nominating candidates to top government posts. Wednesday, Bush called upon two Republican officials and two private citizens to join his team. Paul O'Neill got the first call, nominated for treasury secretary. Though seen as something of a Washington outsider, O'Neill, most recently chairman of the Alcoa Corporation, served for a decade in the Office of Management and Budget in the '60s and '70s. His work under Gerald Ford introduced him to then-White House chief of staff Dick Cheney...
...While the federally funded study found that just over half of the 1,300 15-to-19-year-old boys surveyed had had heterosexual intercourse, a full two-thirds of respondents had engaged in other "non-coital" behaviors, like oral or anal sex - often without an understanding of the accompanying health risks. Considerable ethnic disparities emerged from the in-person surveys as well; white and Hispanic boys were about twice as likely as black boys to have performed oral sex on a girl, while black and Hispanic boys were twice as likely as their white counterparts to have engaged...
...Gallup Organization. According to the granddaddy of polls, Gore's approval rating has shot up in the days since he gave his concession speech. Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled regard him favorably, versus 40 percent who view him unfavorably. That's a stunning reversal of public opinion two weeks ago, when only 46 percent of those surveyed viewed Gore favorably, and 52 percent saw him in an unfavorable light. His graceful exit last week has apparently softened more than a few hearts - particularly among Republican voters, according to the poll - and has perhaps left a few doors open...