Spokesman Bryan Corbin said the office confirmed Cox wrote the tweets but declined to offer further details about its review or Cox no longer having his job, citing confidentiality of personnel power balancematters. Cox told Indianapolis television station WRTV on Wednesday that his comments were satirical but acknowledged they were "not a good idea." "I think in this day and age that tweet was not a good idea and in terms of that language, I'm not going to use it anymore," Cox said. But he also said public employees shouldn't have to surrender their free-speech rights."I think we're getting down a slippery slope here in terms of silencing people who disagree," he told the television station. The Associated Press called several Indianapolis phone listings for a Jeffrey Cox, but could not immediately reach him Wednesday.Using a cell phone for 50 minutes is associated with increased activity of the brain in the region closest to the phone antenna, finds new research by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Elevated brain glucose metabolism, a marker of brain activity, showed up in a study designed to assess whether cell phone exposure affected regional activity in the human brain, led by Nora Volkow, MD, of the National Institutes of Health. The study, published in today's issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association," is the first investigation in humans of glucose metabolism in the brain after cell phone use. "Fifty-minute shop online 2011exposure to a cell phone was associated with increases in glucose consumption by the brain, which indicates that the brain was being activated by the radiofrequencies from the cell phone," said Dr. Volkow. An Indiana deputy attorney general "is no longer employed" by the state after Mother Jones magazine reported he tweeted that police should to use live ammunition against Wisconsin labor protesters, the attorney general's office said Wednesday. The magazine reported Wednesday that Jeffrey Cox responded "Use live ammunition" to a Saturday night posting on its Twitter account that said riot police could sweep protesters out of the Wisconsin capitol, where thousands have been protesting a bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights. Cox also referred to the protesters as "thugs physically threatening legally-elected state legislators & governor" and said "You're damn right I advocate deadly force," according to the magazine. He later told an Indianapolis television station the comments were intended to be satirical. The Indiana attorney general's office said it conducted "a thorough and expeditious review" after the report. "We respect individuals' First Amendment right to express their personal views on private online forums, but as public servants we are held by the public to a higher standard, and we should strive for civility," the office said in a statement. The results of this study add information about the possible effects of radiofrequency emissions from wireless phones on brain activity, write Henry Lai, PhD, of the University of Washington and Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD, of University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden, in an power balance braceleteditorial accompanying the JAMA article. "Although the biological significance, if any, of increased glucose metabolism from acute cell phone exposure is unknown, the results warrant further investigation," write Lai and Hardell. "An important question is whether glucose metabolism in the brain would be chronically increased from regular use of a wireless phone with higher radiofrequency energy than those used in the current study," they write. "Potential acute and chronic health effects need to be clarified."
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