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Publishers Goa,1556 and Goa's largest bookshop, Broadway Book Centre
jointly launch a new book club focused entirely on writing about Goa
First meeting: November 18, 2010 @ 5pm @ Broadway, 18th June Road, Panaji
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I am posting an article from the New York Times as a matter of public
health-we have a lot of eminent Doctors amongst Goanetters-it would be
great if they commented on the issue and educated us on the perils of
exposure to cell phones.
Regards
Vasant Baliga
Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?
By RANDALL STROSS
WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your
health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body.
I’m paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone
manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head
or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when
unpacking your phone. Apple, for example, doesn’t want iPhones to come
closer than 5/8 of an inch; Research In Motion, BlackBerry’s
manufacturer, is still more cautious: keep a distance of about an inch.
The warnings may be missed by an awful lot of customers. The United
States has 292 million wireless numbers in use, approaching one for
every adult and child, according to C.T.I.A.-The Wireless Association,
the cellphone industry’s primary trade group. It says that as of June,
about a quarter of domestic households were wireless-only.
If health issues arise from ordinary use of this hardware, it would
affect not just many customers but also a huge industry. Our voice calls
— we chat on our cellphones 2.26 trillion minutes annually, according to
the C.T.I.A. — generate $109 billion for the wireless carriers.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/14digi.html?src=busln
