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...that into perspective: the average individual can tolerate up to eight hours of sound at 85 db - think busy city traffic - before suffering hearing damage. "For every 5 db over 85 db, the exposure time before irreversible damage gets cut in half," says Beth Orliss, an audiologist in New York City. To sell iPods in France, Apple had to max out the volume at 100 db, which, by the way, is as loud as a motorcycle engine...
...pattern that could just as handily describe Lynch's career. After years of acting in commercials, minor films and TV shows (her 1988 turn in Vice Versa, she half jokes, is "a hard thing to watch"), she caught a break as a lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger...
...cleaning to Europe - Sylvester tries at every turn to thwart the group's success. But she also gets her own story lines. In one plot twist, for instance, scheming Sue was revealed to be the loving caretaker of a sister living with Down syndrome. In the forthcoming second half of the season (Fox put the show on ice in December, reportedly to clear the decks for American Idol), she will sing, get bullied and collaborate on a music video with Olivia Newton-John (one of Lynch's go-to choices for real-life karaoke - "'Sam' is my favorite," she says...
...Undergraduate Council deserves credit for lobbying for the ATM for over a year and a half. In particular, George J. J. Hayward ’11, an inactive Crimson editor and former UC presidential candidate, deserves praise for spearheading much of the ATM initiative. Hayward’s genuine interest in improving student welfare is laudable; his dedication in pursuing the issue shows he was interested in more than just making empty campaign promises...
...good? Look no further than a key save in the first half of the game against Brown, when McCarthy deflected a close range shot—just one of her many plays that helped to build a 3-2 lead going into the half...