Short Takes: News From All Over: June 10, 2004

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Amorous Swedes to Get Emergency Condom Deliveries
By Staff, Reuters
Swedes know they are in for a treat these days when they see the white van featuring a large red condom with wings as its logo pulling up to their doorstep. This sexy, progressive country can now call the condom ambulance in the heat of the moment simply by dialing 696696. Makes sense, since just about everything can be delivered to one's home at the touch of a few buttons these days. And these products actually do you good. So let's get it on! -- Jacob Wheeler
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28157072.htm

Institute on Religion and Public Life
By Staff, Institute on Religion and Public Life
Too often religion is cast as the great divider and the cause of global conflict. But the Institute on Religion and Public Life would like to dispel that negative notion in its monthly journal called First Things. Founded in the early 1970s by a liberal, antiwar Lutheran minister turned neocon polemicist named Richard John Neuhaus the institute calls itself an 'inter-religious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public policy for the ordering of society.' That's right, neocon polemics is surely the one true way to global peace. -- Jacob Wheeler
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/irpl.php

Mobilizing Community Concerns Against Mobile Phone Antennas
By Mark Winston Griffith, Gotham Gazette
As Queens-resident Mario Bazzolo discovered last year, the antennas invading the roofs and backyards of his neighborhood had nothing to do with the cable television company, as one of the men working on the roof had claimed. Instead, the eyesores were part of a base station transmitting radio frequency signals for cellular phones. The Astoria community organized around the issue of 'non-thermal ionizing radiation' (radiation that does not heat tissue) as a possible health risk, resulting in the possibility of closer regulation of cell phone towers in the future -- Jacob Wheeler
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/communitydevelopment/20040527/20/992

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