On the Road: Not a Noise You Want To Hear at 18,000 Feet
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Pilots are worried about safety in an air travel system stretched tight, with airline work forces reduced.
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Thereâs a lot going on under the surface of âFeel the Noise,â far more than its indefensibly generic title suggests.
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By The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 4--When you fly over Las Vegas, you can see clearly how housing developments have bitten deeper and deeper into the desert. There are no green lawns around the houses.
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AMHERST -- There was one thing about flying planes that always irritated Dan Nachbar, a pilot with 23 years of experience. "The view is great," he said, "but the noise is awful."
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Can your hearing be harmed by a loud, high-frequency noise you cannot hear?
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People who talk on their cell phones while driving aren't just dangerous, a new study has found.  They also slow down traffic.
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A start-upâs first product, modeled on the human ear, curbs background noise.
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Night-time noise from aircraft or traffic raises blood pressure even while people sleep, research suggests.
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Global-warming warnings have not dissuaded Americans from driving to work alone. In fact, their numbers have been rising.
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Technology may reduce midair collisions, but it wonÂt eliminate them.
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Campaigners call for "noise maps" to deal with noise pollution from roads, railways and flight paths.
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth.
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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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We left Quebec City at 6 AM on our way to New York City via Montreal. It was my first train ride. I've been traveling by plane in the US for 30 years, and have seen the food go from reasonable to horrible, airline employees go from happy to surly, airport security go from somewhat inconvenient to completely ridiculous and the overall experience of plane travel go from enjoyable to barely endurable. That's really what airline travel has become, a barely endurable way to get from point A to point B. It is my hope that train travel will be a "eureka" experience.
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By The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 20--ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) and other off-road vehicles can be a lot of fun. And large areas of America's national forests have been set aside for their use.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 7--The sound of jets overhead, we take for granted. It's the sound, some like to say, of freedom.   The sight of an aircraft carrier, in drydock at Newport News or moving through the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, is what we're all about.