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...these misconceptions the fact that people are listening to music for longer periods of time - today's long-lasting batteries can crank out music for 15 hours or more - and it's no wonder that the risk of hearing loss is increasing. But perhaps so is the concern. In 2006 a Louisiana man filed suit against Apple, claiming that iPods are "not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss." Soon after, health authorities in France demanded increased safety measures. So the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., revised its software to set the maximum volume...
...colonies have good reason to be abstemious places. When you're trying to hold together so complex a society without - let's face it - a lot of brainpower, you want a population made up of the fittest individuals you can get. A queen that has the genetic mettle to crank out lots of good eggs that produce lots of good babies doesn't need any competition from other, lesser females setting up a nest nearby. Even the queen herself is not allowed to fool with the gene pool once it's been set. She mates only once in her life...
Walt Kowalski is, to put it gently, an old crank, given to growling and spitting like a distempered stray. He's a mass of gruff prejudices against the minorities who've moved into his Michigan town. When some kids brawl in front of his house, he brandishes a rifle and actually shouts, "Get off my lawn!" In any other movie, he'd be the sour comic relief or the monster's first victim. But since, in Gran Torino, he's played by Clint Eastwood, Walt is a stalwart man of the Midwest--the hero who has a score to settle...
...made an unassisted slick shot beneath Gopher goalkeeper Jenny Lura’s skate, straight into the net to tie the game. The third period saw the most action overall, starting with a goal at 2:43 from Minnesota’s Rachael Drazan. The Gophers continued to crank up the physicality, giving Harvard multiple opportunities to come back on power plays. But a strong Minnesota defense held the Crimson at bay until junior defender Kathryn Farni, assisted by classmate Cori Bassett, broke through on the power play at 12:21, tying the game...
...Read newspaper. Crank desk up to heady top speed of 2 m.p.h. This is the optimum velocity, the literature says, because you are moving but you won't break a sweat. I'm cruising...