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Flushing Assailants Continue Malicious Behavior in Court
Court Adjourned: One of the Flushing assailants screams out of the window of a car following a court hearing on July 18. (Dayin Chen/The Epoch Times)NEW YORK—Assailants who were arrested during...
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Senate Revisits Patriot Act
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, (D-VT), speaks during a hearing on the Patriot Act reauthorization on September 23 in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)The U.S. Congress...
View ArticleLantos Commission Holds Human Trafficking Hearing
There may be as many as 27 million people in slavery today, according to a 2007 report by the Department of State (DOS). The House of Representatives's Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing...
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Good Reasons to Address Hearing Loss
NEW YORK—We Americans are accustomed to having our vision checked every year and our teeth checked twice a year. But we often overlook our hearing. Nearly one in five adults has hearing loss, according...
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How Seniors Can Overcome the Effects of Hearing Loss
Did you know that the lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News suffers from hearing loss? Besides a singer’s voice, what could be more important to a musician than his or her ears? But it’s true, Huey...
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Good Government Demands Sunshine on the Palisades
Sunshine A friend involved in NJ politics always tells me, when it comes to political corruption, if you want to stop a strategy – expose the strategy. Her father made a living turning over rocks in...
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Kids Know to Use ‘Indoor Voice’ at Age 2
Toddlers as young as 2 understand that the noises they make can affect people around them—and know how to adapt the loudness of the sounds they make depending on what they’re doing and where they are....
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Study Proves Adults Can Learn ‘Perfect Pitch’
For ages we’ve assumed that early musical training in childhood is needed to have perfect pitch and that it’s just not possible for adults to acquire the skill. But new research proves that, with a...
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Pure Tones Make It Tougher to Isolate Noises
In a noisy restaurant, music plays, glasses clink, and servers discuss the specials. All of these sounds hit the eardrum at the same time, yet conversation continues easily because of a process that...
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Noisy Test Predicts Future Reading Trouble
Even before a child learns to read, a quick biological test may be able to identify if she or he will have literacy challenges or learning disabilities. The study, published in PLOS Biology, centers on...
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Band Class Helps Teens Learn How to Learn
Music training, introduced as late as high school, may help improve how a teenager’s brain responds to sound and could sharpen their hearing and language skills, too. The findings suggest that music...
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Our Lip-Reading Technology Promises to Make Hearing Aids More Human
Hearing aids can be lifelines for people with hearing loss. But their limitations can mean that, in particularly noisy environments, users cannot exploit the best of the existing technology. Most new...
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Why a Shocking Noise Sticks in Our Mind
Sudden, traumatizing sounds can form lasting memories in the brain’s “flight or fight” region. Researchers were able to heighten and improve hearing in rats by stimulating the brain region, known as...
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Can We Unconsciously ‘Hear’ Distance?
Because sound travels much more slowly than light, we can often see distant events before we hear them. That is why we can count the seconds between a lightning flash and its thunder to estimate...
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Computer Trick Shows Pitch Is Just Perception
If researcher Elizabeth Petitti played two musical notes from her laptop, some people would hear the notes rise in pitch, while others would hear them fall. Why the difference? The answer may improve...
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Hearing Scheduled for Adnan Syed, Subject of ‘Serial’ Podcast Convicted in...
A post-conviction hearing has been scheduled for Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular “Serial” podcast. Syed, 35, is serving a life sentence for murdering his ex-girlfriend and classmate Hae Min Lee...
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Good Reasons to Address Hearing Loss
NEW YORK—We Americans are accustomed to having our vision checked every year and our teeth checked twice a year. But we often overlook our hearing. Nearly one in five adults has hearing loss, according...
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How Seniors Can Overcome the Effects of Hearing Loss
Did you know that the lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News suffers from hearing loss? Besides a singer’s voice, what could be more important to a musician than his or her ears? But it’s true, Huey...
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Good Government Demands Sunshine on the Palisades
Sunshine A friend involved in NJ politics always tells me, when it comes to political corruption, if you want to stop a strategy – expose the strategy. Her father made a living turning over rocks in...
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Kids Know to Use ‘Indoor Voice’ at Age 2
Toddlers as young as 2 understand that the noises they make can affect people around them—and know how to adapt the loudness of the sounds they make depending on what they’re doing and where they are....
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