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Some songs seemed to suffer from inclusion in the set.  “Looks Just Like The Sun,” although a nice change of pace on the album, with its sparse acoustic feel and airy harmonies, just didn’t have the power to carry the crowd between dense rockers. Similarly disappointing was “I’m Still Your Fag,” although at least this song benefited from a sense of self-deprecating humor that was lacking on some of the more overwrought numbers...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Broken Social Scene Enthral Audience | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...down “deviant” males like metrosexuals. Those men who really diverge from accepted male behavior—homosexual men, for example, who can’t use the “I’m straight” card to defend their masculinity—suffer even more acute discrimination and violence...

Author: By Asya Troychansky, ASYA TROYCHANSKY | Title: Men's "Tough Guise" | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...vehicle transportation all but impossible. But another 700,000 refugees are still trapped in Darfar where they continue to be victimized by roving militias and strafed by Sudanese military jets. With the crops burned, and new ones unable to be planted, international agencies are warning that Darfur may soon suffer serious famine as well. Meanwhile, Khartoum denies international humanitarian groups access to the region...

Author: By Sasha Post, SASHA POST | Title: Yesterday Rwanda, Today Sudan | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...roots of the problem, the clamor is now everywhere--and the workplace may be the worst place of all. At least 20% of U.S. workers do their jobs in environments that could endanger their hearing, according to NIOSH. The U.S. government estimates that more than 90% of coal miners suffer hearing impairment by age 50. Even farms are not exempt: according to the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health, a staggering 75% of farmers now exhibit some hearing impairment, mostly as a result of noisy equipment. "Hearing loss is one of the most common workplace conditions," says audiologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Too Loud | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...ring in at 92 db. And since babies' ear canals are so small, a sound that gets in them may knock around harder than it does in an adult's ears and do commensurately more damage. When these battered baby ears make it to high school they only suffer more abuse as kids start listening to music at full volume and going to dance clubs where wall-to-wall reverberation is the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Too Loud | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

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