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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
A. J. Jacobs
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A. J. Jacobs
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Journalist
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New York City
New York
AJ Jacobs
Arnold Steven Jacobs
Jr.
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Arnold Stephen Jacobs
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