[Gorzaloon]

Even the low-level but chronic noise of everyday local traffic can cause stress in children and raise blood pressure, heart rates and levels of stress hormones, reports a new study by a Cornell University environmental psychologist and his European co-authors.

As I sit here in the suburbs, listening to the Boom Cars go by, as "The Children" bombard themselves with far worse than traffic noise, my gorge rises as I gag at the idiotic quackery from an "Environmental Psychologist and Doctor of Basket Weaving" and his Euroweenie Bum Boys.

Saddest of all is the mortgages the miscreant's parents took out to send it to Cornell.

[dalereed]

What a pant load!

First of all stress is nothing more than a lack of mental capacity to deal with the current situation.

Having been in construction all my life, going on jobs with my father from the time I was 3, starting plastering for him at 14 and still working at 65, the only thing that bothers me is quiet. Quiet drive me batty and makes me nervous.