Elevators: Captive Viewers For Ads

by Mark Jewell CBS News July 28, 2004 (AP) Gannett Co. and a young company the media giant bought in April are teaming up to cash in on those awkward moments of avoiding eye contact that can make an elevator a place of silent suffering. Gannett and Captivate Network...

The Sound and the Infuriated

by Rebecca R. Kahlenberg The Washington Post September 11, 2004 Alexandria resident Susan Davis lives under a flight path for Reagan National Airport, but it’s not the noise from the sky that bothers her. Last fall, she was frequently unable to chat on the phone...

America The Noisy

Environmental News Service January 4, 2005 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina – Chainsaws, snowmobiles, weed wackers, leaf blowers, barking dogs – secondhand noise, experienced by people who did not produce it, is becoming a public health problem as...

Toning Down the Testosterone

by Jon Wilson St. Petersburg Times March 30, 2005 A growing effort in St. Petersburg aims to combat body-vibrating, heart-stopping, car-rattling car stereos. ST. PETERSBURG – You feel it down deep: It’s a thumping bubble of sound starting in the belly and...