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...eventually impair their hearing. Moreover, those who were destined to go deaf are doing so decades earlier than expected. Although it takes noises louder than 85 decibels (a typical hair dryer hits 90 db) to cause hearing loss, even softer sounds, like a ringing phone, can lead to hypertension, stress and depression...
...baseball remains the dream for the son of a major leaguer, but, like his father, Wolff finds the microphone comfortable. There’s no stress of a game-winning single on the line, there’s no squeeze play needed to save a one-run lead—there’s just the microphone...
This was the first year I haven’t taken advantage of that enviable proximity. Freshman year, I took the traffic-laden journey down I-95 practically once a month. Last year, much the same was true. Despite the work, the stress and the misery of the long, cramped rides, the lure of home—with its promises of friends and family, shopping and coffee shops open past 10 p.m.—were always enough to get me down to Chinatown (or South Station, after I finally gave up on the madhouse) and onto...
Last month media coverage of Iraq was dominated by the stressed out Marine in a Fallujah mosque unfortunate enough to be caught on camera shooting dead an apparently unarmed and wounded man. That event was all over the national media, with plenty of hand-wringing about combat stress and rules of war to remind us that this was not the way America behaves at war; this was a painful transgression. U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte even took the rare step of publicly expressing America's regret over the shooting, although there was also widespread support for the Marine shooter...
...says his proposal will stress the need for a modern historian, a political scientist, a scholar of contemporary Islam (in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world), an economist, a literary scholar, a public health specialist and an Islamic finance scholar...