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Although noise-induced hearing loss typically occurs from continuous loud exposure, it can also result from high-intensity "impulse noises," such as gunshots or explosions. According to Dr. Malcolm Buchanan, one of the report's authors, the safe limit for impulse noises is 110 decibels. The titanium drivers all exceeded this limit, with one club cracking out 128 decibels. (See the full results here.) The noise measurements would have been even higher at an enclosed driving range, Buchanan said...
...United States Golf Association banned drivers from competitive play if they were deemed to have too much of a trampoline effect, which might give an unfair advantage. But the trampoline effect also causes high-energy rebounding of the club's metal, resulting in the trademark "crack" that Buchanan thinks injured his patient's hearing. "What we've found is thin-faced clubs, both conforming and nonconforming, produce noise loud enough to damage hearing," he says...
...Buchanan says it is too early to call for a ban on such drivers - or for golfers to give up the new clubs they got for Christmas. (Acushnet Europe, maker of the King Cobra LD, said it was reviewing the study but declined further comment.) There have been no population studies to date, and, while golf may be a popular game among retirees suffering from age-related hearing loss, there has been no indication of increased inner-ear damage among younger, healthier players. That may be because the titanium clubs have become popular only in the past decade, and ultra...
There is another story in all this, of course. President Bush is approaching Hoover-Buchanan levels of end-of-office ignominy. His evident discomfort at unveiling the auto plan Friday morning comes, in part, from the ideological anomie he feels at the massive government intervention in a once major part of the American economy. But what must hurt even more for Bush - who has always had a keen sense of political reality, whatever his other shortcomings - is the self-image of a President stepping before the podium in his last days to announce a stopgap rescue for two giant, collapsing...
...regular season against the Bears and swiftly defeated them 9-0, as all nine Harvard players won 3-0. In the most impressive match of the game, No. 1 West beat sophomore Benjamin Clayman 9-2, 9-0, 9-0. No. 2 DiSesa and No. 3 sophomore Eliot Buchanan also annihilated their opponents. DiSesa beat Brown junior Adam Greenberg 9-2, 9-1, 9-0, while Buchanan beat sophomore Adrian Leanza 9-2, 9-3, 9-0. The lower seeded matches proved to be the most competitive of the night for the Crimson. “The lower seeds definitely...