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Oh, Bother. Eeyore's Got a Cell Phone. Disney Mobile has begun selling phones and service through its Web site and by phone, officially launching the mobile virtual network operator service that promises parents a high degree of control over how much and when their children can use their wireless phones. The family service plans start at $60 per month for 450 minutes and range as high as $250 per month for 4,500 minutes. All the family plans include two lines of service, and additional lines can be added for another $10 per month. The service requires a two-year contract, credit approval and is limited to nine phones per family account. All lines are subject to an activation fee: $35 for the first line and $25 for each additional line. Sprint is the carrier for DM. More details at RCR News .

It wasn't until college and the curriculum required for my B. S., back east at Sub Normal U., that I learned of the variability of the sun. It is a variable star, and its output waxes and wanes in both defined cycles (sunspots) as well as for either random, or undetermed, reasons. Just ask any of the hundreds of thousands of amateur radio operators who are bemoaning the current dearth of sunspots . In the past two years since this Swiss study was published, I've seen other no-axe-to-grind scientists concur in its validity, and seen no contradiction to the data. Sun gets hotter; Earth gets hotter. Here's one fellow who tracked that variability through a number of indicators in the natural world , collectible with low-tech devices. Another undeniable large physical event could have altered the biosphere adequate to cause all we've seen, and that idea's put forth by Vladimir Shaidurov , inner of the most prestigious scientific award in Russia for 2004, the State P...

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