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Show 8 Thursday, February 4, 1993 The Daily Herald Hea to ei cperls find new A few words for operators - Are cellular phones a health threat? I WASHINGTON (AP) perts say there's no ev idence cellular phones cause cancer, but that customers may want to moderate use until more evidence is in on the health effects of the devices. "There's no need to panic," said Dr. Richard Adamson of the National Cancer Institute. "If there's a risk, it's small compared to other factors we know can cause By LARRY BLASKO Associated Press Writer Computing is still so new that it has to invent its own language along with everything else. The old words just aren't up to the task. The fourth edition of ' 'Webster's New World Ex- By RONALD ROSENBERG Boston Globe or just another Deadly threat health scare story? Just as they are moving to the cancer." ' Dictionary of Computer Terms' ( Simon & Schuster, $8.95) published in January has more than 5 .000 terms up from the 4,500 terms of the 1988 third edition. (The original dictionary, published in 1983, contained 2,600 entries.) A quick browse at some of what's new in the fourth edition But he and other witnesses before the House Energy and Com- merce telecommunications subcommittee said Tuesday no research has focused specifically on the relationship between celluAP Photo lar phones and cancer in humans. Dr. Mays Swycord, of the Food Traders use cellular phones freand Drug Administration's center quently while on the floor. for radiological devices, said the scientific database on the effects of "Larry King Live" about his lawmicrowaves is so small it "begs suit blaming NEC America and for further study." GTE Mobilnet of Tampa for his "If one is concerned, pay atten- wife's fatal brain cancer. tion to usage," he said. Reynard said the tumor devel"We say people don't need to oped near the spot where her phone stay two hours on a cellular antenna was located during a typiphone," said Dr. David Klefman cal use. of the Environmental Protection The type of phone in question is Agency. hand-hel- d dePublic attention focused on the the issue after David Reynard of St. vice with an antenna close to the Petersburg, Fla., talked on CNN's user's head. shows what's been happening in computing. The 1988 edition doesn't have an entry for (Compact Memory), but the new one does appropriately, since the little plastic disks now deliver everything from pop music to pop art. They're the root of the PC revolution, and a major suspect in the death of the record. CD-RO- ly multi-med- f By DIANE DUSTON Associated Press Writer cellular phones free-standin- g, forefront of the country's hightech industry, cellular telephone companies are being hit with questions about the safety of cellular phones and calls for further investigation of the health risks of cellular use. Concern about potential health risk from portable cellular phones arose last week when David Reynard of St. Petersburg, Fla., asserted on national television that his wife died of brain cancer from chronic use of a cellular telephone. He is suing the phone maker, NEC Corp., and a subsidiary of GTE Corp., which provided the cellular service. The concerns were also fueled by the death last week of Reginald Lewis, chairman of TLC Beatrice Co., from brain cancer and by the disclosure that Michael Walsh, an executive of Tenneco Inc., has been diagnosed with the dreaded disease. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that it was unclear whether both men were "There are far greater health risks to them," he added. "This is not the same thing." Monday some cellular phone people who sit in front of computer video screens 10 hours a day ..." Howard Anderson, The Yankee Group president users acknowledged they were surprised at Reynard's health claims, noting they had no plans to alter their use of cellular phones. "I think there is still insufficient data, but I am surprised that there is not much more scientific evidence," said Paul Lazay, a cellular phone user and president of Telco Systems Inc., a N rwood, Mass., maker of telecommunications equipment. The controversy, which dampened stock prices of cellular phone heavy users of cellular phones. companies last week, seemed to "I think this is a tempest in a have subsided Monday as stock teapot," said Howard Anderson, prices of such companies as GTE; president of The Yankee Group, a McCaw Cellular Communications communications market research Inc., a big cellular service provifirm in Boston. He noted that the der; and Motorola Inc., which similarity of the cellular uproar to makes cellular phones, climbed concerns a decade ago about po- back. tential health risks from radiation leaks in microwave ovens. Jeffrey Tate, sales manager of New England Car Stereo in Nor"There are far greater health risks to people who sit in front of wood, a large installer of cellular computer video screens 10 hours a phones, said that except for more day, and we know that questions about health issues, he has not seen any changes in electric utility transmission lines can cook birds that sit on high-volta- ia No federal agency can say if cellular is harmfu long-playi- In 1988, RISC didn't make the list. But Reduced Instruction Set Computing is there now and is widely hailed as one way to meet the need for ever-fastprocessing speeds. It's an offshoot of the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid) and uses fewer instructions in a microchip in a trade for speed. By NANCY MCVICAR Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentin- More than 10 million cellular telephones are in daily use in this country, yet no government agency can say whether the radiation emitted from them is harmful. "We haven't decided that cellular phones are safe," said Sharon Snider, a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration. "What we say is there isn't a lot of scientific data on it at this time, but there is no reason for the public to be alarmed. We would promptly take action if there is any future research that shows there's a prob- er If personal computing were a dog, MicroSoft Windows would be a ilea you wouldn't find one without the other. But in 1988, Windows, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) didn't make the dictionary. For that matter, neither did GUI. VGA, (Video Graphics Array) 0 the pixel standard for graphics resolution didn't make the 1988 edition, although it had been around since 1987. But SVG A , at 800 x 600 or 024 x 768 doesn't make either edition, although it's making lots and lots of v ideo cards. lem," 640-by-48- she said. None of the three federal agencies charged with protecting the public from exposure to environmental hazards takes responsibility for the lack of safety information. Those agencies and manufacturers of the devices have been trying to allay consumer fears since an article in the Fort Lauderdale Sun- - 1 Some entries in the third edition have updated definitions in the fourth. The 1988 edition says notebook computers will fit in a briefcase. The current edition says they generally weigh less than five pounds, reflecting the advances in design. Sentinel on Jan. 3 raised questions celluabout the safety of hand-hel- d lar phones. The FDA has jurisdiction over consumer products that emit radiation such as cellular phones and microwave ovens. But Snider said' the agency accepts the manufacturers' word that their tests prove the products are safe. "It's always been that way. That's the way the law is set up," she said. David Reynard, the St. Petersburg, Fla., man who filed a lawsuit triggering the furor over the phones' safety, said that puts people at risk. ' ' You really have to ask yourself Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association held separate news conferences last week to reiterate that there is no scientific evidence the phones cause brain tumors. On Friday, U.S. Rep. Edward asked the U.S. Markey, General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, for a comprehensive report on whether the devices pose a health risk. On Tuesday, experts told a congressional panel that more research needs to be done on the possibility of a link between cellular phones and cancer, but there's no cause for alarm in the means., whether we should be allow ing the wolves to make up the rules for the sheep," he said. "This is a industry with a lot at time. Snider said her agency has been telling people there is no reason to stop using their phones "at this stake." Cellular stocks and sales of the phones both have dipped in the wake of the national publicity that Reynard's suit alleges that his wife, Susan, 33, died in May of a brain tumor triggered by radiation multi-billion-dol- Sears said Monday that it was evaluating keeping open 200 to 500 of its 2,000 catalog stores as CHICAGO Analysts and resmall retail operations after it tail consultants reacted favorably closes the catalog division this Tuesday to the news that Sears, year. Roebuck and Co. is considering A spokesman said Sears expects keeping open as many as 25 perto decide how many stores might cent of its independently owned survive, and who would own il stores, them, by March 15; one catalog stores as possibility selling tools, appliances and other is that the owners might become "hard-line- " products. Sears employees and manage the makes sense to provide the stores for Sears. "It Nelson said such a plan would full assortment of hardgoods somewhere," said Richard Nelson make sense especially if Sears "allJr., retail analyst with Chicago-base- d ocates more space to soft goods in Duff & Phelps Inc. "They malls, where the people come to don't need the normal assortment buy those goods," because it keeps of hardgoods in the regional some of the small stores open to sell hardgoods. malls." By JOHN SCHMELTZER Chicago Tribune Kong.) mini-reta- Beyond the chance to reflect on what's new. the current edition of the dictionary is a fine companion when reading tcchie articles. It costs S2 more than its earlier version, but only computers seem to offer more for less. The ISBN Number, which w ill allow the computer at your bookstore to fish 846-5 5. it out for you, is 1 -- 1 -- Sun-Sentin- indUStry emitted from her phone's antenna. "I'm sure most of the people who purchase these things have not done the kind of research I have since she was diagnosed," he said. "It is obvious to me that a lot of money needs to be poured into independent research." Dr. David Perlmutter, a Naples, Fla. , neurologist treating two brain tumor patients who used the phones, said he cannot say the phones are to blame for their tumors, but safety data submitted by the industry have not convinced him it is impossible. December D U.S. subscribers in millions 101 V...... NOV. 10 million 4i:::: rrzr DJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJ n i i i i i i i i i 19BS 1990 1984 1988 Source: Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association 1992 AP tc: if: i i n PV time." Sears to retain some catalog stores (Fiarlier "portable" computers and "laptop" computers were portable in the sense that a steamer trunk is portable, and the laps env isioned by designers back then must have belonged to Mrs. King 7 el followed the report. A Motorola executive and the U.S. cellular JJune "As catalog stores, these stores are finished," said Kurt Barnhard of Barnhard's Retail Marketing Report in New York. 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