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Study: Cell phones don't raise cancer risk

Using a cell phone does not increase a person's risk of cancer, according to a broad study released on Tuesday involving more than 400,000 Danish cell phone users.

A team of researchers used data on the entire population of Denmark to determine that neither short-term nor long-term use of cell phones, was linked to a greater risk of tumors of the brain and nervous system, salivary gland or eyes, leukemia or cancer overall.

It is estimated that more than 2 billion people worldwide use cell phones.

"I think the results of this study are quite reassuring," Joachim Schuz of the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, the lead researcher, said in an interview by cell phone from Denmark.

The study, one of the most comprehensive to date, represented the latest evidence endorsing the safety of cell phones. The data available to the researchers allowed them to look at a large number of cell phone users and assess potential risks many years after they first used them.

"The big advantage is a whole nation is included in the study," Schuz said.

The phones emit electromagnetic fields that can penetrate into the brain, and some scientists have sought to determine if this could cause cancer or other health problems.

Schuz's team studied data on 420,095 Danish cell phone users (357,553 men and 62,542 women) who first subscribed for mobile service between 1982 and 1995 and were followed through 2002--meaning some were tracked for two decades. The researchers then compared their cancer incidence to the rest of Denmark's population.

A total of 14,249 cancer cases were seen among the cell phone users, a number that was lower than would be expected for that population, according to the study appearing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Clean bill of health
"We were not able to identify any increased risks of any cancers that could be related to the use of the cellular phones," John Boice, a cancer epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University who worked on the research, said in an interview.

Boice said the type of radiation involved in cell phones is not known to damage cells or DNA. "So there's no biological mechanism that would suggest that even this type of exposure could cause cancer or DNA damage," Boice said.

The study reinforces the consensus among leading health organizations that cellular phones do not cause harmful health effects, a wireless industry group said.

"The overwhelming majority of studies that have been published in scientific journals around the globe show that wireless phones do not pose a health risk," said Joseph Farren, spokesman for CTIA, the Washington-based wireless industry group.

The researchers acknowledged some limitations in their work. Schuz said they could not differentiate between people who used the phones frequently and those who did so sparingly, meaning the researchers could not rule out the possibility that some type of increased risk exists among heavy users.

"There is, in fact, a hazard from the use of a cellular phone that we have to all be concerned about," added Boice, but it is not cancer-related. "And that's using a phone when we're driving an automobile," leaving a driver distracted and causing accidents.

The study was funded by the Danish Cancer Society and Danish Strategic Research Council.

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The Greatest Story Never Told

By: CHRISTIAN POLIDORO, The Bulletin

It's the oldest story ever told yet it's never been told on the big screen. Go figure. It takes Hollywood a nano-second to make biopics for the likes of 50 Cent and Eminem, but has never really told the proper origin of Jesus Christ, from miraculous conception to birth.Catherine Hardwicke's humanizing and passionate "The Nativity Story" does just that, focusing instead on the journey to Bethlehem rather than what happened there. Heavy attention was paid to the responsibility thrust on the shoulders of a young Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes) and noble Joseph (Oscar Isaac) after she learns from the Holy Spirit that she will bear the son of God. It's an interesting take on a popular tale: Many films have been adapted from popular Gospel stories but the miraculous conception - arguably the most familiar story - has yet to see celluloid.Under the tyrannical rule of King Herod (Ciarán Hinds), the townspeople of Nazareth are emotionally worn and economically drained. Children are forcibly pried away from their families and forced into slavery to work off debt. To alleviate domestic burdens, Mary is forced to marry Joseph, much to her initial dismay. But the two quickly accept their arrangement and adapt to their roles of husband and wife. It's at this time that Mary learns from the Holy Spirit that, although she is a virgin, she will bear the child of God. To help her cope with the enormous responsibility, Mary journeys to visit her cousin, Elizabeth (Shohreh Aghdashloo), who, well beyond the child-bearing age, learns that she too is pregnant. Elizabeth encourages Mary in her purpose and faith. "There is always hope, Mary," she reassures her. "Even in Nazareth."Upon her return, things grow worse, and the story becomes more familiar. Upon learning of the prophesied Messiah and the threat the child poses on his kingdom, King Herod demands a census, ordering all citizens to return to the place of their birth for his subsequent (but unknown) "slaughter of the innocents." So begins Mary and Joseph's 100-mile trek to Bethlehem, Joseph's original home, and the rest...well, the rest is quite obvious, as the scene has become enshrined in plastic on thousands of front lawns every Christmas.There are two stories of Jesus' birth in the New Testament: One in the Gospel of Matthew and the other in the Gospel of Luke. Those familiar with both works will find the film sticks more closely with the latter, which is more elaborate.The painfully-detailed script was written by Mike Rich ("The Rookie," "Finding Forrester") who set out to write the story after reading articles about the nativity last year in both Time and Newsweek."I found myself drawn to the amazing choices and decisions that Mary and Joseph made, relying solely on their faith in God and each other," says Rich.The pacing of the film is on the slow side, as the viewer often gets bogged down in biblical dialogue and aesthetics. But the focus is less on the plot and more on emotion. We all knew how the journey to Bethlehem ends; what we learn here is how the couple got there and what kinds of hardships they endured both physically and emotionally during the trip.It's fitting that Hardwicke signed on as director: Her feature debut, 2003's "Thirteen," detailed the troubling and angst-ridden lives of contemporary adolescent girls. Castle-Hughes' plays Mary with the quiet nobility you'd come to expect from one of Hardwicke's characters, and of the Virgin Mother herself, who accepted her destiny to the dismay of many skeptics. Castle-Hughes, the youngest actress ever to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (for 2002's "The Whale Rider," also her acting debut) turned out to be an ironic choice to play the young, pregnant Mary. In a colossal coincidence of life imitating art, Castle-Hughes faced harsh criticism from the church when news broke last month that the 16-year old actress was expecting a child out of wedlock.However it did not slow the momentum of the film, which premiered at the Vatican last Saturday in front of a crowd of over 7,000 people. Castle-Hughes was not present at the screening, nor was Pope Benedict XVI, who cited an upcoming trip to Turkey as the reason for his absence. But rumors still swirlled that Castle Hughes' pregnancy was the real culprit.Despite the controversy, Hardwicke told The Associated Press her movie remains untainted and she's confident the film will appeal not just to religious audiences."We hope that people might relate to the relationship in the film, Mary and Joseph, and how their love grows and gets stronger as each one of them has challenges," she said.Although filmmakers downplay the idea that the film is riding the coattails of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which grossed over $370 million in the U.S. alone, it doesn't hurt knowing that there is a built-in audience. Both films paid painstaking attention to the fine details of life during biblical times. Hardwicke, who spent years as a production designer on films like "Vanilla Sky" and "Three Kings," beautifully shot the film in the same region of Southern Italy where Gibson filmed "The Passion."Think of the story of Jesus Christ as a trilogy: If "The Passion" was the finale, then "The Nativity Story" is the beginning. A much more family-friendly beginning. What about a sequel?
©The Evening Bulletin 2006

Troubling vista for Microsoft

Market darling Google is among the threats, writes Stuart Kennedy

USUALLY a man known for his hyper-abundant energy, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer looked relieved rather than pumped yesterday when he began his opening spiel at the double-whammy launch of Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the tech-centric Nasdaq stock exchange in New York.
Office and Windows are the software cash cows that built the largest personal fortune in history for Microsoft founder Bill Gates and created a software giant so pervasive it is estimated that Windows sits on 90 per cent of the world's PCs. At the Nasdaq launch, Microsoft CEO Ballmer was pitching hard for that dominance to remain, in spite of the new code being as much as two years late to market.
"It's exciting to finally be here," said Ballmer, putting a big emphasis on the word "finally".
Vista is the much awaited replacement for the venerable Windows XP, launched in 2001.
It was first mooted for launch in 2004, rescheduled for 2005 and then finally slated for a full launch by Christmas 2006 - another deadline missed as the full consumer launch is now due early next year.
Its launch comes at a time when Microsoft is facing more serious threats to its business than at perhaps any other time since the launch of Windows 95 a decade ago.
Cashed-up market darling Google wants to bust up Microsoft's stranglehold on desktop computing with free browser-based word processing, spreadsheet and productivity software that lets people store their files online.
Then there's the free software competition from the likes of Linux and the open source desktop productivity initiative OpenOffice.
Kept on hold by the many delays and shifts in politics which are part of the scenery with Microsoft operating system 'We were working hard on a variety of new technologies but probably trying to do new things and integrate them together too quickly and just lost the cycle time'
ot;Then we did a service pack for XP focused on security in one year and then we did most of what you see in Windows Vista in about 2 1/2 years, drawing on some of the incubated technologies from before."
Ballmer appeared unfazed by the many competitors lining up for a slice of Microsoft's market share.
"We've been competing with free software for many years," he said.
"Linux has been in the market for many years, as has OpenOffice, StarOffice ... blahdy blahdy blah.
"Just because something doesn't have an upfront fee is no guarantee of popularity. You have to have something that is good."
He was even more dismissive of the Google software. "If a pretty good, free office package hasn't taken share, why would a less good package that violates your privacy and has less features do better?"
The so-called Business Value launch at Nasdaq this week was aimed squarely at corporate users that buy up Microsoft software in volume licensing deals.
When the flag falls on Microsoft's consumer launch on January 30, the continuing health of Microsoft's share of the consumer market is a given as almost every new name brand PC will ship with Vista by default.
Much harder for Microsoft is convincing business customers to move off the old Windows XP installations that many have struggled for years to make stable and secure and on to the brave new world of Vista.
The same problem applies to Office 2007 and, traditionally, business customers have taken years to do the switch.
Some are now only just switching to the obsolescent Windows XP.
From a profit point of view, Microsoft wants companies to move on to Vista and Office 2007 both for the incremental upgrade revenue and the revenue from all the new back-end software that accompanies the pair.
At the Nasdaq launch, Microsoft trotted out 30 new high-profit margin products associated with the Vista/Office 2007 release.
"This is by far the largest wave of products we've ever kicked off, all anchored around the most significant (Office and Windows) releases that maybe we've ever done," Ballmer said.
As well as Vista and Office, Microsoft has begun shipping the new Exchange Server 2007 email and messaging server, and a raft of other server platforms the company hopes will burrow into the fabric of business IT systems and tighten the company's grip on corporate computing.
These offer new features to tempt corporate users.
The new Office SharePoint Server 2007 that underpins corporate information portals can now search deep inside other vendors' enterprise applications, such as SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems that are fundamental to many large businesses' logistical operations, and Siebel's customer relationship management software, and drag out hidden details.
Corporations have been frustrated that they can search the vast internet more easily using Google than they can search their own systems, constructed using enterprise applications that are not easily accessible to Windows, and have internal search functions that are only available to select people within an organisation - the IT guys.
As an example of how this search could be useful, Ballmer offered up the example of an insurance executive who wanted to raise vehicle accident policies taken out before the Christmas holidays because he was sure potential silly season drink drivers were insuring themselves against mishap.
The executive was sure the data supporting this move was deep in his firm's corporate information systems, but he couldn't get at it. Ballmer believes the new search tools would have solved his dilemma.
A new feature likely to appeal to business people chained to their email inboxes is the ability to ring up the Microsoft Outlook email software, manipulate the inbox and calendar scheduling through voice recognition and "hear" email messages spoken.
It was in a demonstration of the new dial-in email server feature that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is moving away from day-to-day management responsibilities and leaving them to Ballmer, made his only cameo appearance around the worldwide Vista/Office launch extravaganza. Gates's high-pitched voice appeared as the voice welcoming Microsoft officials who demonstrated the feature.
It will take more than fancy new features to convert corporates tired of dishing out money to rejig vast Microsoft installations just because Microsoft thinks it's a good time to move on.
There's a rule of thumb in IT management land that you don't install a new version of Windows or Office inside a company until at least the first, glitch-fixing service pack has been released.
Ballmer hopes the unprecedented beta testing of the pair - about 5 million pre-production trial versions of Office and Windows were downloaded worldwide - will speed up adoption.
As well as the upgrade costs associated with the software, business must shell out for the transition costs that arrive with major IT changes. These include staff retraining costs and the costs of loading up the new code.
Microsoft officials say the retraining effort with Vista and Office goes up depending on the user's expertise with the old software. Power users could take up to two weeks to get comfortable with the changes whereas unsophisticated users would only take several days to get their heads around the new releases.
Microsoft believes transition costs with Vista will be much lower than those that came with shifting from earlier versions of Windows to XP, but it would not quantify the costs.
Instead, business will have to rely on the experiences of early Vista adopters such as Westpac, which has decided to move to Vista rapidly. Microsoft has about 500 organisations worldwide looking to hitch up quickly with Vista and Office, with about 30 in Australia.
While Ballmer poo-poos freebies from Linux and Google, Microsoft has got into the free software game in a small way to push the new Vista and Office at the software developer community.
Microsoft is giving away free copies of Vista Business and Office 2007 Professional until February 28, 2007, through its Power Together program (www.powertogether.com). The offer is open to US residents who complete a series of webcasts or online lab sessions.
Unfortunately, Australians miss out on the scheme, which is only open in the US. A Microsoft Australia official confirmed the scheme did not apply here and Microsoft would only ship the gift copies to US addresses.