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noise pollution | noise pollution

alysa-salzberg's picture
Nov.18.2012
  Lying down, I wonder, Where is the usual stream of cars?  No trucks pause below the window, their hydraulics puffing and groaning at the stoplight.  There’s no misbegotten youth outside, yelling to each other, laughing, sometimes fighting.  It’s as if, tonight, they’ve taken...
debra-darvick's picture
Sep.15.2011
That's the word the guy being interviewed on NPR used. Commonize. I know he meant standardize. But given the English language's continued slide from standardized to bastardized, I suppose you gotta forgive the guy. I don't gotta, but you may if you want. He was talking about the lack of noise...
annielaural-lefaye's picture
Apr.11.2010
Oh, I am late with this blog entry.  Do forgive me for not passing on the opportunity, having found it in my email  long after it was 'assigned'.  I live in one of the loveliest sections of a large Australian capital city - Brisbane.  Our hundred + year old Queensland Colonial sits almost atop the...