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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, August 27, 2003

THE LEFT LANE
Sorry, can't hear you

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Ever been suspicious someone used "bad cell-phone reception" as an excuse to hang up on you?

In a recent nationwide Sony Ericsson survey, 74 percent of the 400 college students who responded said they blamed poor connections on their cell phones to hang up on calls.

More than half of them (60 percent) also said they used their cells to get out of a date. And 51 percent said they absolutely could not live without caller ID — more than they cared about games, text messaging, speed dial and special ring tones combined.


New second baton

LANDRY
Joan Landry is new assistant conductor of the Honolulu Symphony, charged with the responsibility of programming and conducting the orchestra's Youth Music Education Program.

She also will consult with maestro Samuel Wong on artistic issues and serve as a community advocate for music education. A seasoned conductor as well as an experienced lecturer, Landry most recently was apprentice conductor of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Lewis & Clark College Orchestra.

She'll be at the baton, too, when she conducts orchestra members performing with the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and the Hawai'i Opera Theatre in HTY's season's opener, "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Gertrude McFuzz" Sept. 6-21 at the Hawai'i Theatre.


Healthful dining out

Maintaining good health doesn't mean dropping out of life, and modern life incorporates a lot of eating out. Dietitian, consultant and writer Hope S. Warshaw understands this and has spent 20 years helping clients figure out how to "Eat Out, Eat Right!" — which just happens to be the title of her guidebook from Surrey Books, recently released in an updated paperback version, having already sold more than 400,000 copies in a previous edition.