- •Учебно-методическое пособие
- •Содержание
- •Предисловие
- •Unit 1 education
- •Private Schools Growing But Lack Recognition
- •Мамармен: начало начал
- •Reading
- •Adults go to school
- •Manager on a Picket Line
- •Teacher on the lip
- •Able to be got 3
- •Ломоносову не было бы стыдно
- •Higher Education in the usa
- •Misconceptions of Studying in the United States
- •1. America is full of crime and is a dangerous place
- •2. It is too expensive
- •3. You may not be accepted or well-received by the locals
- •4. The usa is not known for certain academic disciplines
- •5. Recent international developments have made the usa dangerous
- •Организация учебного процесса
- •Final Task
- •Unit 2 application for a job
- •Preparing For a Job: cVs
- •Your cv should include:
- •The Skills of Giving a Presentation The Art of Public Speaking
- •Can you tell me something about yourself?
- •What has made you want to leave your current position?
- •Where do you see yourself five years from now?
- •4. What’s your biggest weakness?
- •5. What is your greatest strength?
- •6. Do you usually prefer working with others or on your own?
- •7. Can you describe the qualities you think a good boss possesses?
- •8. What do you like to do in your spare time?
- •9. What attracts you to the company?
- •10. Why are you the right person for this job?
- •Interview killers:
- •Найти работу за две недели
- •Ten Attributes of a Good Employee
- •Национальные различия корпоративной культуры
- •Берем курс на запад
- •Послать всех на тренинг
- •Text 3 What Makes a Good Manager? Here are 10 Tips
- •Менеджер по персоналу
- •Unit 3 ecology World scientists’ warning to humanity
- •Worries About World’s Ecology
- •Warning
- •What we must do
- •Не утонем – так сгорим
- •Reading
- •Climate
- •Changing Climate
- •Impacts
- •Неспокойная Земля (Интервью с академиком ю. А. Израэлем)
- •Toxic wasteland
- •Граждане, станьте мешочниками!
- •Helpful vocabulary
- •Final task
- •Unit 4 the purpose of science
- •Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom
- •History
- •New materials, devices, technologies
- •Дамскую сумку оснастили подсветкой
- •40 Тысяч американских курьеров получат новые карманные компьютеры с радиосвязью
- •Unit 5 terrorism
- •What is Cyberterrorism?
- •Лондон детонирует
- •Terrorism and the Media
- •Ес обсуждает меры по борьбе с терроризмом
- •Helpful vocabulary
- •Narcoterrorism
- •Радиационный терроризм: между физикой и политикой
- •Final Task
- •Unit 6 globalization: the argument of our time
- •Defining Globalization
- •Генуя — очередное поле сражения антиглобалистов
- •Reading
- •Additional reading
- •Unit 1 education Text 1 a mickey –mouse generation
- •Text 2 not smart enough for a passing grade ? fake your way into a university
- •Text 3 An American View of Russian Education
- •Is a foreign professor in Russia restricted in what and how he teaches?
- •If you pay, pay for the quality
- •Unit 2 application for a job Text 1
- •26 Советов для успешного прохождения собеседования при устройстве на работу
- •2. Особенно четко формулируйте то, что вы знаете и чего хотите добиться
- •3. Убедитесь, что ваши возможности совпадают с вашими целями
- •4. Четко опишите свои сильные стороны
- •5. Подайте вашу слабость как сильную сторону
- •7. Если вы были уволены, скажите об этом прямо.
- •8. У вас должны быть ваши личные стандарты
- •9.Задавайте вопросы интервьюеру
- •10. Не позволяйте вопросу о зарплате изводить себя
- •Text 2 My goal
- •Text 3 How to Keep a Good Project on Track? Here Are 1o Tips
- •Text 4 Leadership is a question of style
- •Unit 3 ecology Text 1 Greenpeace movement
- •Text 2 Killing the Volga
- •Text 3 Shrinking Sea
- •Unit 4 the purpose of science Text 1 a Future with Nowhere to Hide?
- •Is Your Cell Really Safe?
- •Terrorism
- •Definitions of Terrorism
- •Text 2 Terrorism: An Introduction
- •I Was There...
- •Text 4 Notes from a Russian volunteer
- •Text 5 Who's To Blame?
- •Unit 6 globalization: the argument of our time Text 1
- •Communication activity unit 1 education
- •Opinions
- •Unit 3 ecology
- •Unit 4 the purpose of science
- •Terrorism
- •Unit 6 globalisation
- •Just for fun
Is Your Cell Really Safe?
Worries about a link between cell-phone radiation and brain cancer still can't be dismissed, says a new study
By Claudia Kalb and Karex Springex
shari welsh can't imagine life without her cell. She brings it everywhere—biking through the hills, driving in the city. "I feel so much safer," she says. But at the same time Welsh, 32, can't stop thinking about whether she's really protecting herself at all. "A lot of times when I'm using my cell phone," she says, "I wonder if I'm going to get brain cancer."
And so do a lot of other people. A whopping 100 million Americans now use mobile phones, and tens of thousands of new customers wire up every day. Health concerns first made major headlines in 1993, when a man alleged that his wife had died of brain cancer from cellphone use, sued the manufacturer and appeared on "Larry King Live." (The case was dismissed.) This week Medscape's online journal MedGenMed, raises new questions with a controversial article surveying the current wireless medical research. Its conclusion: industry claims that cell phones are absolutely safe are "no longer supportable." George- Carlo, the paper's lead author, says he was shocked by the data. "We're beginning to see a momentum of scientific and medical studies," he says, "that are now pointing in the direction of potential problems."
Safety concerns are clearly worth investigating. It has long been known that intense exposure to electromagnetic radiation can harm human tissue. The question is, can the tiny amounts emitted by cell-phone antennas do serious damage? Carlo, the former head of the industry-funded Wireless Technology Research program (set up in 1993 to study cell-phone safety), surveyed more than 50 studies, many of them still unpublished. Most showed no link. The "red flags" he cites come from recent work—much of it preliminary and in no way conclusive. In one experiment researchers at Integrated Laboratory Systems in Research Triangle Park, N.C., found that high levels of cell-phone radiation (two and a half to five times greater than legal cell-phone limits) can cause chromosomal abnormalities in human blood cells. In a Swedish study of brain-tumor patients published last year, scientists found that mobile phones posed no increased risk for brain tumors, but in a very small subgroup of patients tumors were more likely be found on the side of the head where a phone was used. And a team of researchers led by Dr. Joshua Muscat of the American Health Foundation in Valhalla. N.Y., studied 470 brain-tumor patients; they found no risk for the vast majority, but in a subgroup of 35 there was some correlation between cell-phone use and a rare type of brain cancer.
Carlo's review of the science, much of which he has already presented publicly, has drawn fire from industry officials, who say he is exaggerating the findings. Based on the science so far, says Jo-Anne Basile of the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, "there are no adverse health effects from the use of wireless phones." And some of the very researchers Carlo cites object to the way he has presented or interpreted their data and say it requires far more analysis. Carlo, who has a law degree and a Ph.D. in pathology, has spent years doing industry-funded research (he also worked for breast-implant manufacturers) and has been a controversial figure in the health field. He says he's just doing his job. Initially, he thought the data would turn up empty; now, he says, there are questions.
Some of these questions will be more fully addressed over the next few years. This week the Food and Drug Administration and the CTIA meet in Washington to collaborate on safety research. The National Cancer Institute is now analyzing data from a major survey on the causes of brain cancer, which includes an analysis of cell phones. And the World Health Organization, noting that there will be as many as 1.6 billion cell-phone users worldwide by 2005, is planning a study in at least 10 countries to examine links to head and neck cancer.
In the meantime, if you're worried about cell-phone safety, you can take some precautions. Start with an earpiece. Get an old-fashioned cell phone for your car, so that the antenna is outside the vehicle. Hang up when signal strength is bad, says Dr. John Moulder, a radiation oncologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin—that means the phone has to work harder and emit more radiation. Use digital phones (less radiation) rather than analog. And beware of devices that claim to shield radiation, since anything that blocks transmission keeps the phone from working properly. Finally, put it down when you get behind the wheel. You might enjoy the quiet.
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