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...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 a bill in Congress to turn down the volume. "It's critical," she says, "that we work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Too Loud | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...humans aren't aquatic. Most of us, in fact, wish the world were dryer, not wetter, and flooding tops the list of human grievances against the beaver. By raising water levels, its unkempt but admirably watertight dams can flood basements, swamp sewer systems, spoil trout streams and even derail trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: I'll Be Dammed! | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...memory of their affair removed by a Dr. Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), he resolves to do the same; why should he suffer remorse when Clem's slate is clean? So he sticks his head in Dr. M.'s apparatus--an Ed Wood--style space helmet mixed with a hair dryer--but, as his mind swims through the memory-erasure process, he decides that even the rotten memories of Clem are worth treasuring. How to stop all this, escape from Camp Brainwash, especially when the doc's klutzy technicians (Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst) are more attentive to their own weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Do I Love You? (I Forget) | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

History remembers rivals together. Players and teams may get lost in the collective consciousness of sport, but if your name clings to another like statically-charged boxers from the dryer, then congratulations: You’re immortal...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ON HOCKEY: Harvard Takes Aim at Dartmouth, ECAC Title | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...exchange, Harvard would need to construct a new building nearby that would provide housing for the existing 213 families, with the same ratio of affordable and subsidized apartments along with new amenities like washer and dryer hookups in each unit...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Eyes Allston Complex | 1/21/2004 | See Source »

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