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HELSINGIN SANOMAT
INTERNATIONAL EDITION - HOMEYou arrived here at 09:30 Helsinki time Thursday 8.4.2010
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The world's largest-everhuman experiment
Are mobile phone users at riskto their health? If they are, itwill be noticed first in Finland
The fearsome wolf Lutheran Church registers toenter digital age next year
Piledhigher than therollercoaster at LinnanmäkiFreedom gives Gataevs newhope
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print thisBy Jaakko Lyytinen"It stings my ear just as if someone had stabbed anail into my head. My skin doesn't just get inflamed anditchy and hot, but I also come out in a rash as if I'dgrabbed a stinging-nettle", explains Hanna Nurminen.The it in her description is a mobile phone handset -something that 54-year-old Hanna Nurminen picks uponly under the greatest duress.She even gets distressing symptoms from otherpeople's phones.At the beginning of this year, for instance,Nurminen travelled from Helsinki to Turku by bus, andin a nearby seat was another woman, who spoke on hermobile for the entire two-hour journey.After the trip, Nurminen's muscles and joints achedfor several days.Nurminen, whose maiden name is Herlin, retains asignificant holding in the family engineering firm, theinternational elevator and escalator company Kone,which her father Pekka Herlin headed as CEO (from1964-1986) and as Chairman (from 1987 until his deathin 2003).She is also the Chairman of the Board of the KoneFoundation (Koneen Säätiö), which exists topromote Finnish academic research, arts and culture.Hanna Nurminen does not give interviews aboutHerlin family matters, but she has no qualms about
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