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...books to clothes - are legitimate, and violate no U.S. or international sanctions, which until now have focused narrowly on entities believed to be involved in Iran's nuclear program. "To the extent that normal consumer goods are getting into Iran, that does not undermine the overall policy," says Stuart Levey, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "We are not trying to make [the Iranians'] lives unpleasant," he says. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...
...Levey says he has flown to Dubai about 12 times over the past two years, attempting to persuade officials of the United Arab Emirates (of which Dubai forms part) to crack down. "The UAE is really grappling with the issue," he says. "The Emirates are aware of the reputational risks with dealing with Iran, and they take those risks seriously...
Science agrees that listening to music at too high a volume can be dangerous, even for the young. Dr. Sandra Levey of New York City's Lehman College says 13% of teenagers aged 16 to 19 already show signs of noise-induced hearing loss. The inner ear contains small hair cells that vibrate against an inner membrane, generating an electrical signal that the brain interprets as sound, Levey explains. When bombarded by loud volumes over an extended period of time, these hair cells die off. The result is hearing loss, and potentially an array of other nasty consequences. A study...
...will only mandate a default maximum-volume level - users are still able to go in and tweak the settings to rock out as loud as they want. Because of this, both Levey and Grimes say the more effective approach to the issue may be educating listeners about the problems that can arise. As president of the American Academy of Audiology, Grimes helped start an initiative called Turn It to the Left, which was aimed at informing people about the dangers of prolonged exposures to loud noise. And Levey says that during her study, talking to people about the risks...
...wasn't lost on anyone that the architect of those sanctions, Treasury official Stuart Levey, was part of the diplomatic delegation the U.S. sent to East Asia recently. A senior Administration official says it is "deeply aware" of how effective those sanctions were. Finding ways to punish Pyongyang isn't where Obama expected to be at this point in his presidency. But that wasn't his choice. It was that of Kim Jong Il and the men who surround him - determined, for reasons only they can fathom, to remain stuck in the coldest of wars...