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    • 02 JUL 10

    #1275: An informative website on microwave hearing.

    From Beperk de Straling: We brought together a lot of scientific references and articles on ‘microwave hearing’ studies on our website see http://www.beperkdestraling.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=59#tinnitus All the best, Beperk de Straling

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    • 01 JUL 10

    #1274: Tinnitus and mobile phone use

    From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Researchers in Vienna have found that using a cell phone for four years or more doubled the risk of developing tinnitus. Once again, we have have learned the importance of looking at long-term impacts, rather than simply immediate effects. Read the whole story at http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis Slesin __________________________________________________________ Louis

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    • 30 JUN 10

    #1273: The Smith Family Student2Student Program: Encouraging learning and possibly brain tumours as well

    The good work of the Smith Family charity in helping disadvantaged children is known throughout Australia. To quote from their website: “The Smith Family is a national, independent children’s charity that helps disadvantaged Australian children by unlocking opportunities through education and learning. As research has shown, supporting children’s education and learning is one of the

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    • 30 JUN 10

    #1272: The Evil Empire (CTIA) strikes back

    Cellphone industry attacks San Francisco’s ruling on radiation Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/28/ AR2010062805231.html?hpid=topnews By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 29, 2010 San Francisco, a city that banned the plastic bag, now has waded into the muddy territory of cellphone radiation, setting off a call to arms in the $153 billion wireless industry. Last week,

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    • 30 JUN 10

    #1271: The New York Times: Are Cellphones the New Cigarettes?

    From Elizabeth Kelly: Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion/27dowd.html?ref=opinion The New York Times, 27 June 2010, Sunday Opinion, page 11: Are Cells the New Cigarettes? by Maureen Dowd SAN FRANCISCO The great cosmic joke would be to find out definitively that the advances we thought were blessings “” from the hormones women pump into their bodies all their lives

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    • 28 JUN 10

    #1270: ARPANSA takes a precautionary approach for children and mobile phones

    While the Education Ministry of New Zealand blindly takes an Auckland industry consultant’s advice that it is okay to make it compulsory for school kids to use a mobile phone as a learning aid (See message #1268) Australia takes a far more enlightened approach. The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) has issued

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    • 16 JUN 10

    #1269: San Francisco 1st City to Require Warnings of Cell Phone Radiation Risk at Point of Sale

    It is interesting to note that while Auckland, New Zealand considers a policy to make it compulsory for school kids to own a cell phone (last message), San Francisco establishes a policy to warn consumers of cell phone radiation risks. Opposite ends of the globe in more ways than one….. Don ************************************************************************************ From Camilla Rees:

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    • 14 JUN 10

    #1268: Cellphones could become compulsory classroom tools in New Zealand

    The following news article from ‘enlightened’ New Zealand is an excellent example of what happens when government ministers blindly take the advice of a so called independent expert who turns out to be a paid telecommunications consultant. This same consultant has likened cell phone headaches to be no more dangerous than an ice cream headache

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    • 10 JUN 10

    #1264: Interphone afterthoughts and compliance questions

    From Dariusz Leszczynski, STUK, Finland: A new post “Interphone afterthoughts and question about compliance of mobile phones with safety standards” has been published and is available here: http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/%e2%80% a2interphone-afterthoughts-and-question-about-compliance-of-mobile- phones-with-safety-standards/ or: http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com ************************************************** Dariusz Leszczynski, PhD, DSc Research Professor: STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland Adjunct Professor: University of Helsinki, Finland

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    • 10 JUN 10

    #1263: Interphone Continues; IARC Recruits Joachim Schüz

    From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Christopher Wild, the director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has recruited Joachim Schüz of the Danish Cancer Society to take a senior position at IARC. The appointment signals a calculated gamble for IARC and for Wild –at least with respect to making further progress on Interphone

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