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 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:46:08 -0400
 From: takensave@aol.com

 Cell phone news
 From: takensave@aol.com
 To: takensave@aol.com
 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 4:03 pm

 NEW YORK TIMES: 06/02/08
 Experts revive debate over cell phones and cancer

 Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry
 King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. “I think the
 safe practice,” said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical
 Center in Los Angeles, “is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave
 antenna away from your brain.”

 Dr. Vini Khurana, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the
 Australian National University who is an outspoken critic of
 cellphones, said: “I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I do not hold it
 to my ear.” And CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a
 neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital, said that like Dr. Black he
 used an earpiece.

 Along with Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s recent diagnosis of a glioma, a
 type of tumor that critics have long associated with cellphone use, the
 doctors’ remarks have helped reignite a long-simmering debate about
 cellphones and cancer.