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...punishment, though, is voluntary. "Unfortunately," says Russ, an audiologist at Northwestern University's hearing clinic, "most of us unnecessarily increase the burden of noise we put ourselves under in our private lives." Homeowners endure the steady whine of everything from chain saws and power lawn mowers to vacuum cleaners and dishwashers. And the din of leisure activities can be just as dangerous as the roar from the factory floor. "We have laws to protect the hearing of workers in noisy workplaces," says senior scientist William Clark of the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis. "But there...
...publications such as Greenpeace Pundit Watch and watchdog books such as Unreliable [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media. One outfit even publishes an annual guide that rates journalists on a four-star basis, as if they were restaurants or portable vacuum cleaners. It is anybody's guess how much influence these groups have, but they're certainly a noisy bunch.}]The granddaddy is Accuracy in Media (AIM), a 22-year-old right-wing organization headed by Reed Irvine. A political gadfly who still blames the press for the U.S. defeat...
...technology museum. Its forecasters still launch old- fashioned balloons -- 70 of them twice a day -- to take readings in the atmosphere. They use refrigerator-size computers that have less power than the average desktop machine. And they depend on radar equipment that runs on World War II-type vacuum tubes. This creaking system is dangerously prone to breakdowns. In one notorious instance in the winter of 1988, the radar sentinel in North Carolina was out of service for 10 days, during which a batch of tornadoes tore up the state, injuring 157 people, killing four and wreaking $77 million worth...
Hobbled by internal divisions, lack of direction and a leadership vacuum brought on by the May assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, India's Congress Party took the path of least resistance last week: it tapped an uncontroversial party stalwart to serve as the nation's Prime Minister. P.V. Narasimha Rao, 70, who has a heart condition, became the unanimous choice of party legislators after his main rival, Bombay politician Sharad Pawar, 50, withdrew his candidacy for the nation's top post in the name of party unity...
This approach to public service has not always been popular at PBH. "When I was running for president, some people saw me as overly political. But I think you can't do public service in a vacuum," says Ehrenreich...