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Niraj Chokshi - Niraj Chokshi is a former staff editor at TheAtlantic.com, where he wrote about technology. He is currently freelancing and can be reached through his personal website, NirajC.com.
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Niraj previously reported on the business of the nation's largest law firms for The Recorder, a San Francisco legal newspaper. He has also been published in The Hartford Courant, The Seattle Times and The Age, in Melbourne, Australia. He's also a longtime programmer and sometimes website designer.
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UAE Issues Fatwa Banning Loud Vuvuzelas

By Niraj Chokshi

Jul 9 2010, 10:05 AM ET Comment

The United Arab Emirates has done what FIFA should have long ago: it issued a fatwa against the vuvuzela, the long, buzz-producing horn used by World Cup soccer fans to annoying effect:

[The fatwa] declares that the now-famous blast from the plastic vuvuzela is not permitted in the Gulf country if it exceeds 100 decibels -- about the sound of a passing train.

It says the typical vuvuzela blast is up to 127 decibels.

Read the full story by the Associated Press.

Related: Vuvuzela Hero, below.



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