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The less invasive laser-assisted uvulopalatoplasty (LAUP) burns away excess tissue and is performed under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis. Yet its long-term effectiveness has yet to be established, and the pain can still land you in a new grotto of hell."The incision or the laser burn has to heal while you constantly breathe, talk and swallow, so the wound is always being stretched, causing considerable pain," says John Shepard, M.D., medical director of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center in Rochester, Minn. "One patient said that if he''d had a gun he would have shot himself, the pain was so bad." To be fair, others experience less discomfort--the equivalent of a bad sore throat for three or four days.

Environmentalists have been quick to point fingers at chip mills for devastating forestry practices. But the industry insists it''s "out of the loop" concerning timber cuts, since operators purchase their supply from private landholders. Industry officials are so infuriated, many refused to comment. The line connecting chip mills to clearcuts and destructive forestry isn''t a straight one, but it is visible. Dean Carson of the South Carolina Forestry Commission argues that chips can be transported more efficiently, using less energy, than large pieces of timber, and mills can utilize the whole tree. But processing the whole tree is exactly what has brought the mills under fire: because lumber is chipped into one-inch pieces, any size scrap of timber will do. With new markets opening up for treetops, undersized trees, and forked or crooked specimens, landowners have added incentive to clearcut a site for quick profits, instead of harvesting selected trees to be cut into boards. And timber previously left behind to continue maturing, or that provided wildlife habitat or eroded to replenish soils, now finds itself in the steely mouths of the chippers. A 1998 U.S. Forest Service report says clearcutting accounts for 13 percent of logged land in the South. And because bajajscooters the chips are needed for everything from rayon and plastics to particleboard and paper, chip markets continue growing. Timber giant Willamette Industries says chip mills allow landowners to merchandise otherwise unusable trees, discouraging forestry practices like "high-grading" (cutting only the healthiest trees). "Clearcutting is often the best tool to assure a rich, diverse forest," claims Willamette''s web site. "Many songbirds and other types of wildlife require open areas for nesting and food gathering."