Unfortunately, the sorry truth is that voice quality, at least in the United States, is not likely to get better until sometime next year, regardless of whether you buy the iPhone 5.

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That is a lot better than nothing, at least for nuclear fallout (for which the model was first developed): there the case for being safe not sorry is overwhelming, and once the fallout has fallen, a Geiger counter will tell you whether the model's forecasts of which places would be affected have turned out to be right.

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