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...sounds. In-ear monitors (IEM) are better at isolating noise than earbuds are because they are inserted into the ear canal. Several mass-market brands, which range in price from $39 to $399, use gummy-bear-like coverings that can be squished into place. But the sound quality still isn't perfect, in part because, like earbuds, IEMs are too small to house complex audio circuits. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Ears are like fingerprints - everyone's are different," he says. If comfort isn't reason enough to persuade you to make the switch, then consider this: keep cranking up the volume on your crappy earbuds, and your next fitting could be for a hearing...
...Hatoyama would not necessarily disagree with any of that. He insists, after all, that he does not see "any contradiction" between close ties with the U.S. and with Asian powers. There is no reason to doubt he means what he says. But this isn't the mid-1950s. Anyone who thinks the balance of power in Asia is not changing - and with it the strength of the U.S., even among its old allies - hasn't been there lately...
Commissioner Fazal Karim Khattak, the administrative head of the provincial government in Swat and seven other nearby districts, rejects criticism that the government isn't doing enough, although he admits that there is a heavy reliance on the military. The destruction is so widespread, he says, that it's "not really possible" for the government to do it alone. "I would recommend that the army stays here in the same numbers for quite some time," he adds, "because the civilian institutions have been ruined so much that it will take some time for them to stand on their own feet...
...that's the message Syria is trying to send through stepping up weapons shipments, the exercise could backfire. "Assad says he wants talks with Israel, but doubling down on Hizballah isn't going to make the Israelis come running, especially not a Likud government," says Tabler. "It makes a war that much more likely...