Neighborhood advocates, park users and environmentalists, not to mention golfers, have long asserted that the project would destroy precious green space, raise water rates, inflict noise, pollution and traffic on a fragile urban neighborhood, and even raise asthma rates.
Expansion at Gatwick, however, would still get this column's vote: it would inflict less noise and pollution at home and would keep Heathrow's monopolistic tendencies in check.
Even if the net number having noise inflicted on them shrinks, there will still be some whose noise levels rise.
Eric Oddleifson of Cohasset, Mass., suggested that "the polluters (i.e., the airlines) pay for the damage they will inflict" in increased noise and in decreased property values for people living near airports.
A central issue is to establish why five "conditioning techniques" – hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, and white noise – inflicted on IRA suspects and banned in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, were used on Iraqi detainees.
THE BOTTOM LINE -- Regular exposure to loud music and noise can inflict permanent hearing damage.
By cutting out the gas, you are avoiding the harms that come with the extraction and burning of fossil fuels and saving yourself and your neighbors from the noise pollution they inflict.
It would cause massive increases in noise and air pollution and inflict misery on hundreds of thousands of Londoners.
But there's no mention of Merritt's hyperacusis, a hearing condition that inflicts painful feedback whenever Merritt encounters loud noises such as applause or "women in gay bars".
Movingly more than the sum of its three parts, Making Noise Quietly adds up to a powerful exposé of the damage inflicted by war.
