Dear Sir According to a recent study carried out by Professor Om Ghandi, head of electrical engineering at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City children absorb up to 50% more micro wave radiation from using mobile phones than adults do.

The younger the child, the more radiation the brain soaks up, as their thin skulls and smaller heads offer less protection against the microwaves sent out by mobile phones. The handsets are logically closer to the brain and brain cells than with adults.

Campaigners claim long term mobile phone use can cause brain tumours, memory loss and headaches.

None of which in my opinion would have been compatible with a growing, learning child. I wonder what the Ministry of Education is doing about this? KEEPING INFORMED Warwick Point of order Mr. Editor October 27, 1999 Dear Sir, Don't let your paper be anymore one-sided than it is already. I am continually surprised at the number of people who tell me that they stay away from reading that one-sided paper, namely The Royal Gazette .

My latest peeve is the comment under the lovely picture of our Hon. Dame Lois Browne Evans. I say you should print an apology for that comment. By equalising the attainment of a knighthood with what goes on on Broadway is repulsive.

Ain't nothin like a dame' was out on Broadway years ago and for entertainment.

The use of it in this instance could not be further from entertainment.

Newspapers are depended upon to be neutral, not like the reporting of The Royal Gazette in the recent case of what the Police Commissioner, who is a good person, is alleged to have said.

Then there was the speculative story about the PLP celebrating one year in charge at Government expense. Poppycock! Then the report about illiteracy among recruits in the army by `an insider?' I see Mr. Stewart who ran for the UBP took out his revenge a few weeks ago in your paper against the victorious PLP.

ROSS TUZO Warwick A plan for the future Dear Sir, If we are to work for peace and unified co-existence in Bermuda, obstacles must be removed, and apparent irreconcilable conflicts reconciled. Through the processes of consultation and resolution, through a willingness to counter aggressiveness with unified actions, we can change hopelessness to hope for our future endeavours.

Everyone yearns for peace. The rising impulses for change must be positively addressed and barriers overcome that block the realization of this age-old dream.

We are challenged to consciously and systematically design the future. The bedrock of such a strategy that can engage the world's population in assuming responsibility for its collective destiny must be the consciousness of the oneness of humankind. Human society is composed not of a mass of merely differentiated cells, but association of individuals, each of whom is endowed with intelligence and will. We are diverse, and this works to our advantage, each person bringing to the table distinctive capacities. No one cell can live apart from the body, whether in contributing to its functioning or deriving its share from the well-being of the whole. The human species is an organic whole. That human consciousness which operates through a definite diversity of individual minds and motivation, detracts in no way from its essential unity.

Indeed, it is precisely an inhering diversity that distinguishes unity from homogeneity or uniformity.

We are collectively coming-of-age and it is through this emerging maturity of the human race the principle of unity in diversity will find full expression.

Laying the groundwork for peace and global civilization, of which we need to contribute our share, will mean a rethinking of how we address issues.

Justice is the one power that can translate the dawning consciousness of humanity's oneness into a collective will through which the necessary structures of a global community life can be confidently erected. We must begin here, where we are presently living, to build a collective will that will in the future merge with that global society.

At the individual level, justice is that faculty of the soul that enables each person to distinguish truth from falsehood. At a group level, a concern for justice is the indispensable compass in collective decision-making, because it is the only means by which unity of thought and action can be achieved.

A consultative framework made possible by the consciousness of the organic unity of humankind will address concerns of human rights. It will find legitimate and creative expression and allow collective consultation to develop with freedom to investigate the truth of all situations leading to a further maturation of our society.

The strategy that can make possibly the empowerment of humankind is a vast increase in knowledge. The scientific technology at hand has joined and linked the world. Through consultation, fact will be distinguished from conjecture, it will distinguish between subjective views and objective reality. To the extent to which individuals and institutions can contribute to human progress, however, will depend on determination and devotion to the truth, with detachment from their own interests and passions.

Training and the promotion of knowledge will allow participants to assist in the process of the production of the wealth and well-being of our society, but, only to the extent that the strategy gives service to humankind and is the purpose of both individuals and the organisation.

Let us lay foundations, let us re-order our priorities to elevate the burdens of the working environment, and social order. Let us re-define the term "work-ethic'' and allow creative interaction to re-orient the habits and attitudes for the betterment of the whole of our society.

Let us make a commitment to this strategic goal and persist with the idea that power means advantage for all the various segments of the human family, as well as the social and economic development of the planet.

G.A.S.

St. Georges.