Who's the phone for? Depends on the ring
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Regional telephone companies in the Northeast are offering a service that allows home telephone users to hear different types of telephone rings depending on who is calling for whom. Initially tested by BellSouth in 1989, the service offers customers up to three separate lines that have their own numbers and do not require additional wiring or equipment in the home. Separate numbers can also be listed in the phone book. The service costs $16 to start up in New York State, $14.25 in Connecticut and $21 in New Jersey, with monthly fees between $4 and $6. The service is not as popular as call-waiting has been. Households most likely to use the services include homes with children, homes with separate office extensions, shared homes with house mates or roommates and homes where children are left unattended for long stretches of time.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Cellular phone scare discounted
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Scientists say they have no evidence suggesting that cellular telephones might cause cancer, but admit they have much to learn about the long-term effects on the human body of low-level electromagnetic radiation. Many scientists say that portable cellular phones are apt to prove benign and dismiss four reported cases of cancer in cellular-phone users as statistically insignificant. But scientists also concede that studies to date have been incomplete, inconclusive and failed to consider the wavelengths emitted by cellular phones. Cellular phones operate at a frequency of 840 to 880 MHz, the low end of microwave section of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some say that cellular phones do not actually cause cancer, but promote pre-existing, tiny tumors.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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Bard of the ring
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When adapting Richard Wagner's 'Gotterdammerung', it is easy to see parallels to today's world.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 2003
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