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Scientists can?t seem to decide whether cellphones are safeor not. Now Dariusz Leszczynski at the Radiation and NuclearSafety Authority in Finland has found that one hour ofexposure to cellphone radiation caused cultured human cellsto shrink. The blood-brain barrier normally preventsunwanted molecules from entering the brain, but cellphoneradiation targets proteins in the “stress fibers” of thecells that line blood vessels, which causes these cells toshrink. Leszczynski thinks cellphone radiation might allowdangerous molecules to pass through the spaces betweencells, that become enlarged due to the shrinking of the cellitself, and get into the brain that way.
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After Bush said the Palestinians should find another leaderand get rid of Yasser Arafat, Arab leaders have had to cometo terms with the fact that neither the U.S. or Israel willdeal with him anymore. U.S. State Department spokesmanRichard Boucher confirmed this when he said that Secretaryof State Colin Powell “has no plans to talk to chairmanArafat. I think we made that quite clear.”

Arafat’s former Arab allies are now searching for areplacement they can support. “The idea is to make it clearto the Palestinians that Arafat is the sole obstacle to thegoal of achieving a Palestinian state,” an Arab diplomaticsource says. “This has placed unprecedented pressure onArafat.”
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It had to happen: white parents who underwent in-vitrofertilization have given birth to black twins. The whitemother, who lives in the U.K., wants to keep the babies, buta black couple claims they belong to them.

IVF involves mixing of the father’s sperm with the mother’seggs in the laboratory. The resulting fertilized embryos arethen implanted into the mother. In this case, either thewrong sperm was used to fertilize the eggs or a blackcouple?s fertilized embryos were wrongly implanted into awhite woman.
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Scientists have discovered that sex may be bad for yourhealth. When researchers studied why some insects have ashorter life span than others, they discovered their earlydemise is caused by hormones associated with sex.

Dr. Jens Rolff and Dr. Michael Siva-Jothy at the Universityof Sheffield in the U.K. studied mealworm beetles, which aresold in pet stores as food for pet reptiles and birds. Whenthey allowed the beetles to mate, the hormone releasedafterwards adversely affected an enzyme that is necessary toimmune system functioning. This made the beetles moresusceptible to infection, and less likely to live long lives.
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