TEXTO:
Your health
Wireless worries: Still wondering what that cell
phone is doing to your brain? There’s no convincing
evidence yet it’s doing much of anything, but still the
Cellular Telephone Industry Association is requiring
[5] manufacturers to disclose how much of a cell
phone’s radiation may be absorbed by the body. The
measurement, called the specific absorption rate, is
regulated by the FCC. But whether a lower reading
translates into a safer phone is anyone’s guess.
[10] Double whammy: Not only do smokers die
younger than nonsmokers, but they also spend a lot
more of their lives combatting disabilities. You might
think that nonsmokers, because they live longer,
would spend more of their lives disabled. Not so. On
[15] average, smokers have difficulty performing daily
activities, like walking, dressing and washing, for two
years more than nonsmokers do.
TIME. New York, v. 156, n. 5, p. 68, s.d.
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