Motorola, Schaumburg, Ill., the maker of communications systems and equipment, said it planned to close a cellphone plant in Boynton Beach, Fla., by the end of the year, eliminating 240 jobs.
"You have people who come with their sandwiches full of mayonnaise, who open their umbrella when there is just a drop of rain and forget to close their cellphones," said Anne-Marie Waser, a sports sociologist and author of a book on the democratization of tennis in France.
The operator dispatched a patrol car from the Police Department's 48th Precinct in the Bronx to the general vicinity, which the authorities had determined by zeroing in on the closest cell tower to the cellphone call's origin.
Jan Blanton said her relationship with her son, Ben, is closer because cellphones make reaching out so simple.
And though I tried to lose myself in the action as the boys did, I kept my cellphone close, just in case my father called from the hospital with the bad news I knew would come by week's end.
The crowd crushed close and snapped cellphone pictures as Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Clinton, side by side, bobbed through the crowd shaking hands and offering high fives, but not everyone was pleased with Mr. Clinton's appearance.
He got into the habit of keeping his cellphone close when he drives so he can quickly call a cousin, the only legal resident among his relatives in the United States, in case he gets pulled over.
One resident had left his apartment to buy aspirin shortly before the crane struck, and another, who was pinned beneath the rubble, had his cellphone close by and was able to call for help.
Main exposure-metrics included self-reported time spent with an active cellphone close to the body, estimated time and number of calls on both phone types, estimated and actual extent of SMS text-messaging, cellphone functions used and people texted.
