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...Just Too Loud" stated not only that excessive noise may cause hearing loss but also that high volume levels may be linked to hypertension, heart damage and depression [April 5]. I agree with Ted Rueter, who heads the advocacy group Noise Free America, that noise levels are becoming unbearable. During the summer months, I like to open my windows and enjoy the fresh warm air, but I have to shut them quickly because of the racket from outdoors. You said that Rueter may move to New Zealand for some peace and quiet: Can I go too? ELVA WOITO Cambridge...
...Rueter isn't joking about possibly moving to New Zealand. And if he does go, it won't be the frenzy or the expense of living in the U.S. that drives him away. It will be the leaf blowers. Americans now own more than 90 million of the infernal things, he says, each of them making the job of lawn clearing much easier--and much, much louder. Rueter, a onetime political-science professor at UCLA who is head of the advocacy group Noise Free America, already fled Los Angeles to get away from the leaf-blower blight, only to move...
...just the blowers that are driving Rueter daft. It's the boom cars--those high-decibel, low-frequency speakers on wheels that cause your windshield to buzz and your eardrums to pulse when they pull up next to you at a stoplight. It's the car alarms too, as well as the barking dogs and the banging garbage trucks and the screaming airplanes and the roaring highways and the plaster-cracking sound tracks in action movies that shake the seats not only in the theater where an action movie is being shown but in the one on the other side...
...think pitching is carrying this club? Guess again. Jason Schmidt has been outstanding, yes. But after that, the staff is filled with question marks. Kirk Rueter and Jesse Foppert? Sidney Ponson has been average since being traded. Jerome Williams is the team’s only other credible starter—and if Williams is your No. 2 starter, you’ve got problems, even if you’ve got Albert Pujols on your team. But not Barry Bonds...
...Francisco (Rueter 14-9) at San Diego (Ashby...