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...hate noise," says Los Angeles Physicist Vern O. Knudsen. "Noise is a human plague...
...loudest nation in the world, is growing still noisier. Ever more numerous jet planes scream overhead, unmuffled trucks roar through city streets, sports cars whine along once placid suburban roads, and missile-age workers are being exposed to the highest and most dangerous noise levels in history. "Noise," says Physicist Knudsen, "is the bane of our existence...
Physical Effects. Doctors agree with Physicist Knudsen that noise is a hazard to physical health. The most obvious danger: deafness. "The Good Lord in his mercy provided the majestic elephant and the lowly ass with ear flaps that would at least partially close the ear canal," observes Knudsen. "But man, poor creature, was not so favored...
...which has won 14 "Quietest City" awards from the National Noise Abatement Council for a strict program that requires thrice-yearly inspection of car brakes and mufflers, permits horn honking only in emergencies, and prescribes fines for people who keep noisy pets. But more needs to be done, says Physicist Knudsen: "The reduction of noise results in increases in output of labor and in human well-being that usually more than justify the cost of reducing the noise...
...greatest work is probably behind them. Chemist Linus Pauling published his milestone theories about the nature of the chemical bond in the '30s, waited until 1954 to receive his Nobel Prize. But Pauling's accurate insights remain a basis for the work of 1960?3 scientists in many fields. Physicist I. I. Rabi received his Nobel Prize in 1944 for his work on the atomic nucleus, in recent years has been most active as an articulate adviser to the Federal Government, explaining science to the Solons as something that requires, and is worthy of, a basic "optimism of the possible...