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Article: Cell phone controversy.(Health Risks and Environmental Issues)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Prolific world-wide use of cell phones in the past decade, and more recently, wireless internet service, are among the latest technological advances being promoted by the telecommunications industry, which began to take off during World War II.
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The use of shorter and shorter radio waves, bounced off the ionosphere for long distance communication had begun before the war, and military advances in rapid communication were crucial factors in the United States' ability to maintain an edge over enemy forces. "Microwave radar helped win the Battle of Britain, allowed all-weather bombing of Germany, and gave the American Navy a decisive ...