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Such micromanagement of noise may never be entirely possible, but it may be the best of an imperfect array of options. The alternative--walling ourselves off behind a thickening barricade of earplugs, triple-glazed windows and white-noise machines--may keep down the noise, but it will also deafen us to much of the world, not just the parts we don't want to hear...
...HARM At least 1,000 of the creepy-sounding air-to-surface anti-radiation missiles helped deafen Iraq's air-defense radar system Cost: $200,000 each...
Only one of the hijackers' homemade grenades went off, doing little damage. The gendarmes countered with concussion grenades, which temporarily deafen and blind, allowing them to burst into the cockpit and shoot down the terrorists...
...Ocean Boom Boxes: A project may deafen some whales...
...Fuller made a movie called The Big Red One about his old division four years ago, he thinks war is impossible to convey on film because "you can't see anything in actual combat. To do it right," he says, "you'd have to blind the audience with smoke, deafen them with noise, then shoot one of them in the shoulder to scare the rest to death. That would give the idea, but then not many people would come to the theater...