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...does anyone expect the release of radiation figures to slow the phenomenal growth of the $50 billion cell-phone industry. More than 400 million mobile phones are in use worldwide, and manufacturers expect to sell another 400 million units this year. In the U.S., cell-phone users spend an average of 150 min. a month yakking into their beloved mobile phones. "This is the most popular product known to man," says Ed Snyder, who follows wireless technologies for the Chase H&Q investment firm. "More cell phones will be sold this year than all the computers, TVs, personal digital assistants...
...TIME: in your book, you often use the Russian term: nomenklatura. Who exactly do you mean in the Mexican sense? SALINAS: It's that group of traditionalists who benefited from a closed economy, a one-party system, and from an attitude of alleged opposition to the US. while they were really collaborating under the table. They are specialists in fabrication...
...Also today, Enon opens for the Flaming Lips. (Question: the Flaming Lips' version of "She Don't Use Jelly," while hilarious and probably one of the most well-known of their songs, is unrepresentative of their sound. How many other bands are there which have been stereotyped by being associated with a specific song...
...certainly do have, in this period of prosperity, adequate resources to provide basic health care services to all members of society. However, the current rhetoric skewers those plans that use health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as the model of affordable health care. We will never reach a viable health plan if we insist on the best health care that money can buy for everyone; medical science will always provide newer, more expensive, and more effective treatments for those with the money...
...Viana?s government, along with others, is exploring every opportunity to find profit in standing forest. In fact, with the world increasingly alarmed about global warming, state governments in the Amazon see a potential gold mine in the use of virgin forest as a storehouse for atmospheric carbon. The Amazon Basin releases between 100 million and 300 million tons of carbon a year into the atmosphere through deforestation; the amount doubles in years when fires devastate the forest. The U.N.-sponsored greenhouse-gas agreement, worked out in Kyoto in 1998 to combat the threat of climate change (not yet ratified...