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Listening to music too loud can damage your ears.


It's true! Too-loud tunes can wreck WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law.  your hearing. When it's cranked crank 1  
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 up--in your earphones, on your stereo or at a Yellowcard show--music can cause temporary hearing loss. Your ears might ring for 15 minutes or two days, and then go back to normal. But if you're exposed to loud music on a regular basis, it erodes your hearing ... permanently. In fact, 15 percent of kids 3 to 19 may already have hearing loss, according to according to
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 the National Center for Health Statistics National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

NCHS is the United States' principal health statistics agency.
. Turn it down--saving your hearing rocks.
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Title Annotation:Fact or Fiction?
Author:Kemp, Kristen
Publication:Girls' Life
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2004
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