Question: "Mobile phone killed my man," screamed one headline last year. Also came claims that an unpublished study had found that mobile phones could cause memory loss. And a British newspaper devoted its front page to a picture supposedly showing how mobile phones could heat the brain.

For anyone who uses a mobile phone, these are worrying times. But speak to the scientists whose work is the focus of these scares and you hear a different story.

One of the oddest effects comes from the now famous"memory loss" study. Alan Preece and his colleagues at the University of Bristol placed a device that imitated the microwave radiation of mobile phones to the left ear of volunteers. The volunteers were good at recalling words and pictures they had been shown on a computer screen. Preece says he still can't comment on the effects of using a mobile phone for years on end. But he rules out the suggestion that mobile phones have an immediate effect on our cognitive abilities. "I'm pretty sure there is no effect on short-term memory," he says.

Another expert, Tattersall, remarked that his latest findings have removed fears about memory loss. One result, for instance, suggests that nerve cell synapses exposed to microwaves become more -- rather than less -- receptive to undergoing changes linked to memory formation.

An even happier outcome would be that microwaves turned out to be good for you. It sounds crazy, but a couple of years ago a team led by William Adey at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California found that mice exposed to microwaves for two hours a day were less likely to develop brain tumours when given a cancer-causing chemical.

"If _ doesn't certainly cause cancer in animals and cells, then it probably isn't going to cause cancer in humans," says William. And while there's still no absolute evidence that mobile phone use does damage your memories or give you cancer, the conclusion is: don't be afraid. 1. Did an American newspaper report on brain heating and cell phones?
2. Are scientists worried about cell phones killing brain cells?
3. What animal is mentioned in the West Coast experiment?
4. Where did Mr. Preece work?
5. How long were the rodents put near those waves?
6. What is the name of a military oriented building on the West Coast?
7. Are microwaves okay for rodents?
8. Were the furry lab species provided with chocolate for this experiment?
9. What side of the head was tested in by Mr. P?
10. What was one title from a publication? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. no
2. no
3. mice
4. University of Bristol
5. two hours
6. the Veterans Affairs Medical Center
7. yes
8. unknown
9. left
10. Mobile phone killed my man

Q: CHAPTER XXII

When all is done or said, In th' end this shall you find, He most of all doth bathe in bliss That hath a quiet mind.--LORD VAUX

Robert had promised to return in the end of March to be present at the Assizes, when the burglars would be tried, and he did not come alone. Mr. Crabbe judged it time to inspect Beauchamp and decide for his wards; and Lady Bannerman, between Juliana's instigations, her own pride in being connected with a trial, and her desire to appropriate Phoebe, decided on coming down with the Admiral to see how matters stood, and to give her vote in the family council.

Commissions from Mervyn had pursued Robert since his arrival in town, all for Bertha's amusement, and he brought down, by special orders, a musical-box, all Leech's illustrations, and a small Maltese dog, like a spun-glass lion, which Augusta had in vain proposed to him to exchange for her pug, which was getting fat and wheezy, and 'would amuse Bertha just as well.' Lady Bannerman hardly contained her surprise when Maria, as well as Mervyn and Phoebe, met her in the hall, seemingly quite tame and at her ease. Mervyn looked better, and in answer to inquiries for Bertha, answered, 'Oh, getting on, decidedly; we have her in the garden. She might drive out, only she has such a horror of meeting any one; but her spirits are better, I really thought she would have laughed yesterday when Maria was playing with the kitten. Ha! the dog, have you got him, Robert. Well, if this does not amuse her, I do not know what will.'

1. Robert
2. in the end of March
3. at the Assizes
4. the burglars would be tried
5. no
6. inspect Beauchamp
7. a family council
8. Commissions
9. Mervyn
10. since his arrival in town
11. Bertha's
12. a musical-box
13. a small Maltese
14. no
15. no
16. in the hall
17. better
18. in the garden
19. better
20. the kitten

Numbered questions:
1. Who had vowed to come back?
2. When?
3. Where did he plan to be?
4. What would happen there?
5. was he alone?
6. What did Crabbe think it was time to do?
7. What kind of council was it?
8. What pursued Robert?
9. from whom?
10. since when?
11. for whose entertainment?
12. What did he bring?
13. what kind of dog was it?
14. was the pug healthy?
15. Was it thin?
16. where did they all meet?
17. How did Mervyn look?
18. Where was Bertha?
19. How is her mood?
20. What was Maria playing with?

input: CHAPTER V

OFF FOR WOODCRAFT

Edward Muldoon, otherwise Sparrer, surreptitiously pinched himself to make sure that he was not dreaming. He, newsboy from the lower East Side of New York, who had never been farther from it than Coney Island, riding in a brilliantly lighted Pullman coach on his way into the great woods of which he had dreamed so much since he became a Scout, and of which he had only the vaguest idea! It couldn't be.

And yet it was. The roar of the wheels told him that it was. The very feel of the luxurious seat in which he was sitting told him that it was. And to clinch the fact and at the same time make it harder to believe there were his three companions, Upton, his patrol leader, Harrison and Pat Malone, whom he had secretly made his hero. Yes, it was all true, and yet he couldn't get rid of the idea that sooner or later he would wake up and find it all a beautiful dream.

The fact is, this trip was in the nature of a Christmas present. From their first meeting Pat had taken a great fancy to the street gamin. He recognized a kindred spirit. Instinctively he realized that the difference between Sparrer and himself at the same age was mainly one of environment. The youngster's sturdy independence and self-reliance, his quick wit, even his impudence, struck responsive chords in the young woodsman. Sparrer was what he himself would have been had his nursery been a New York East Side tenement instead of the log cabin of a mill settlement in the lumber district of the North Woods. 1. Who is Sparrer
2. What did he do?
3. Why?
4. Where did he live?
5. What part?
6. What did he do to make money
7. Who was his secret hero?
8. Where was he going?
9. What was this trip?
10. From who?
11. Why?
12. Where was his nursery?
13. where?
14. in what district?
15. where?
16. What kind of coach were they in?
17. Who was with them also?
18. What were their names?
19. Who was Upton?
20. What is farthest Sparrer had gone before? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Edward Muldoon
2. pinched himself
3. to make sure that he was not dreaming
4. New York
5. the lower East Side
6. He was a newsboy
7. Pat Malone
8. into the great woods
9. a Christmas present
10. Pat
11. Pat had taken a great fancy to him.
12. a log cabin
13. a mill settlement
14. the lumber district
15. the North Woods
16. a Pullman coach
17. his three companions
18. Upton, Harrison, and Pat
19. his patrol leader
20. Coney Island