Quiet is broken only by the hum of mechanical diggers
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Kham Promnich has been sleepwalking for the past four days. Yesterday, in a trance-like state, he paced up and down the patch of land where his house once stood, as if tracing the perimeters of his shattered life.
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Sssh. Quiet now. Can you hear it? Can you hear the metal-on-metal clatter emanating from Chestnut Hill? It's the sound of another NFL-caliber offensive lineman rolling off the assembly line at Boston College. This year's model?
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The drive uses Seagate's "SoftSonic" fluid-dynamic bearing motors and "QuietStep" ramp loading technology.
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>Tool use more widespread among chimp population  The noise came from the trees: crack, crack, crack.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 14--Champions of military airfields often call jet noise "the sound of freedom." The sound Tar Heels are hearing from their U.S. senators right now is the sound of hemming and hawing.
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PARC NATIONAL DES VOLCANS, Rwanda  - One hour's trek into the Rwandan rainforest, a crunching sound breaks the silence that hangs over the misty thick bush.
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Sick of screaming to be heard over your cell phone in noisy places? A software firm claims its new headset, based on noise-reduction research it conducted for the U.S. military, will virtually eliminate background-noise disruptions. By Elisa Batista.
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U.S. soldiers believe the usually violent neighborhood of Ghazaliyah has become quiet -- too quiet to be comfortable
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Seated inside a black sports  utility vehicle, one female passenger asked, &quot;How do you like  to hear your music, loud or quiet?&quot; As the SUV pulled out, its  speakers began throbbing to a sassy beat.
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A survey finds Newcastle has more traffic noise than anywhere else in England, with Torquay the quietest place.
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Sometimes the march of technology can lull us to sleep.
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Hit the snooze button and you might miss this driller's unfolding transformation.
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PCs using the new standard should be quieter, thanks to fewer fans.
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A little less conversation and a little more action
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Giant video games with throaty  diesel engines powering monster-sized earth movers, excavators  and dump trucks have hardened miners at a metals conference  this week in Peru giggling like children.
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Noise. It was noise that might have shattered the sound barrier at 3:49 yesterday afternoon, and it lasted well beyond a minute. Excited, joyful, happy, appreciative noise - an explosion of cheers and applause and yelling of the names of the two men who had assaulted each other on the blue pavement of a tennis court for ...
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