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Hearing loss from those tiny earphones? Not my problem, as I can't even get the darn things to stay in my ears.

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By Charles P. Pierce
February 19, 2006

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O ver time, I have discovered, one's body determines quite on its own to reject certain modern accouterments the way a body naturally will reject a new liver, or sushi. It will conspire within itself to demonstrate that, say, a 49-year-old looks silly in a Shaquille O'Neal jersey, or it will make the independent judgment that, on people of a ... (Full article: 701 words)

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