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...eight children between the ages of 6 and 19 already have some degree of hearing loss, and adults who are going deaf are doing so earlier and earlier. "The greatest increase [in noise-related hearing loss] occurs for people 45 to 64 years old," says Dr. James Battey, director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. "This is almost 20 years younger than we would expect...