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...just our ears the noise is hurting. It takes sounds in excess of 85 decibels (db) to damage hearing, but noise at less than 75 db may be linked to hypertension, and that at just 65 db leads to stress, heart damage and depression. Think the noise in your environment doesn't rise to that level? Think again. A ringing telephone can reach 80 db; a hair dryer hits 90 db; an ambulance siren can top out at an excruciating 120 db. "Noise pollution is truly a public health threat," says Representative Nita Lowey of New York, who has reintroduced...
...kids, the racket starts in the cradle. A squeaky toy held close to the ear--which is precisely where babies may put them--can reach 94 db. A toy xylophone can ring in at 92 db. And since babies' ear canals are so small, a sound that gets in them may knock around harder than it does in an adult's ears and do commensurately more damage. When these battered baby ears make it to high school they only suffer more abuse as kids start listening to music at full volume and going to dance clubs where wall-to-wall...
Harvard was stopped twice within the Dartmouth 10-yard line during the second quarter, turning the ball over first on downs with 9:07 left, and then on Dartmouth DB Mike Ribero’s interception of junior quarterback Garrett Schires at the goal line to end the half...
...biggest market, Germany. But elsewhere, the official reaction to liberalization is far more skeptical. No private operators have yet been granted licenses in France or Spain, even though both nations have implemented legislation that should technically allow for it. In Germany, where some private operators have been allowed, DB's ceo, former aerospace executive Hartmut Mehdorn, is cutting staff and spiffing up stations to knock the railroad into shape before a planned public offering in 2005. He has also bulked up the company's international-freight operations with the acquisition of former state-owned firms in Denmark and the Netherlands...
...losing money and customers, Raith's sales have almost tripled in the past two years, to €24 million. Rail4Chem was founded by the chemical giant BASF in 1999 after it bought a polyurethane and fertilizer plant in eastern Germany, only to find that state-owned Deutsche Bahn (DB) wasn't able to cater to its just-on-time production schedule. At the time Germany, acting ahead of many of its neighbors, had begun allowing private freight operators to move their goods within the nation on state-owned track, so BASF set up Rail4Chem. The railroad unit was spun...