Ringing in cancer

-- THOUGH reports linking brain, cancer to the use of mobile phones
pushed down shares of US Cellular
telephone companies, Japanese firms
remain mostly unaffected. Tokyo
stock market analysts explain this is
because the Japanese have been
inoculated by earlier reports of
radioactive cellular phones.

Says Edward Staiano of
Motorola, the world's largest manufacturer of cellular phones: "If we
had any concern that they caused a
health problem, we would stop selling them immediately." But those
doubting corporate protests of public
concern point out the cigarette industry has far greater cause for worry,
but it has not stopped selling.