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In the below story subtitled "No evidence yet suggests
harms to student, he says" is very deceptive, as the
article seems to indicate the exact opposite. Once
again showing, in my opinion, the inability of the news
media to show aircraft noise in a negative light. The
story can be located at:
http://www.ocregister.com/politics/toro019w.shtml
or read it below.

Trustees get noise researcher's take on airport
EL TORO: No evidence yet suggests harm to students, he says.
May 19, 1998
By KEITH SHARON
The Orange County Register
Chronic exposure to noise can lead to lower reading scores and hypertension
among schoolchildren, a researcher told concerned parents Monday.
But there is no evidence yet to suggest an international airport at El Toro
would force children who attend schools in the flight path to endure chronic
noise exposure, he said.
Gary Evans, a professor at Cornell University in New York, spoke before the
Capistrano Unified School District board of trustees and the Orange County
Acoustical Society on Monday night. Capistrano Unified opposes an airport.
"I think they (airport supporters) are crossing their fingers and hoping for
the best," said Chrystal Kochendorfer, board of trustees president, "but
that's not good enough."
Evans did not provide a threshold for what is too much noise. That research,
Evans said, has yet to be done.
Final plans for flight patterns, numbers of flights and types of aircraft
are not complete.
Evans' past three studies � one in New York and two in Munich, Germany �
revealed that schoolchildren living and attending school near airports in
those cities suffered higher blood pressure, less concentration and more
stress.
"If you increase the noise, you increase the impact," Evans said.
Those studies focused on schools that had much higher noise level than even
the noisiest proposal for El Toro, said Vince Mestre, an acoustical engineer
hired by the county.
"The reuse of El Toro won't cause students to be affected anywhere near the
level that Gary Evans is talking about," Mestre said.
Evans said the people who are most susceptible to noise problems are those
who have hypertension, the elderly and children who have reading problems.
Research has shown that children who are constantly bombarded can develop
motivational problems, Evans said.


--
Bill Mulcahy, member of Sane Aviation For Everyone
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/safe.htm