"I lost my cell phone and I needed to get in contact with my sister, " Virginia told her.
If I wanted my cell phone fixed I had to drive a few miles down the road to the nearest Apple store.
And eventually I just decided that, you know, that it was time to do something about it, so I took her cell phone away from her and I tossed it out the door.
Had I owned a cell phone or digital camera, maybe I would have videotaped the moment and put it on YouTube.
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More recently I left my cell phone in my car on a night when I was in the eighth row for a Beyonce concert.
"I had a cell phone for two months, and it interrupted every creative thought I was having, " he said.
If I take a nanoshell and I attach it or place it directly next to a cell that I want to destroy and shine light on it then it will convert the light to heat and it will very gently destroy the cell.
"I'd lie there in the cell at night and I think: I'm the only one in the world who knows I'm innocent, " Ranta told the Times from a Buffalo prison.
The first thing I did was run to work and tried calling up my brother on his cell phone (as I do not have the facility to make international calls from home or my cell phone).
The other thing it does is it makes it extremely easy now to tailor a stem cell to an individual because all I have to do is get a few skin cells from you and then put in these magic factors, and suddenly I've got an embryonic stem cell line that's tailor made directly to you.
"I could put a cell phone in an earring or a tongue stud, " says the 39-year-old professor-turned-entrepreneur.
On September 11, 2001, I was sitting in Cell Block D-1 in Edgefield Federal Prison Camp in Edgefield, SC.
My problem these days is that I keep going through cell phones.
When they brought me back to my cell, I was hurt and ashamed, and I didn't know how I could face my fellow prisoners.
As a stem cell scientist I find that really disturbing.
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Speaking of cell phones, airports are huge facilities that, I've found, often have cell phone "dead zones" -- even for major carriers like Verizon.
Although, if someone proposed banning cell phones, I would be the first to sign.
That point was reinforced for me in a recent cell phone call I had with Eleanor, my wife, while she was traveling.
This time I called t-Mobile, told them about these new charges, and that I had not made any cell phone calls onboard my ship.
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Personally, I still think embryonic stem cell-based treatments are a decade or more away, but the cells are invaluable in other ways right now.
After a few minutes I called him on his cell.
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One Saturday that did not fall in either tax season (January 1 to April 15) or second tax season (August 1 to October 15), I was either out of cell phone range or had the phone turned off.
So if you agree with me, then I need all of you -- I see a lot of cell phones here and a lot of -- (laughter) -- all kinds of stuff -- (laughter) -- I want you to send a message to Congress.
The young female cashier was texting on her cell phone when I arrived, pointing to the red phone downstairs one must use to call Moneygram and speak to a robot, selecting English or Spanish, whether sending or receiving money, giving the eight-digit confirmation code and personal ID information to release the funds for receipt.
"I sometimes hope he is in a police cell somewhere and no-one has found him yet - that's what I hold on to, " she said.
One second, I was texting my husband farewell (the island didn't have cell service), and the next, I was gripping the side of the boat, life vest pulled tight, water whipping my face.
"I was supposed to meet John that night and he is never late, so when 20 minutes went by, I got worried and called his cell, but it went straight to voicemail, like it was turned off, " Cappelmann said.
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