Dialing P For Panic

Can cellular phones cause brain cancer? There's scant evidence but lots of fear.

It was the buzz of boardrooms, power lunches and anxious phone calls from the freeway. It was debated by stockbrokers, real estate agents, Hollywood producers and media Bigfeet. Mid-level executives who wouldn't leave home without a phone in their pocket -- or at their ear -- were putting off calls or finding other ways to make them. Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold.

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