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  • Mezzanine

    • 6 out of 10
    • Massive Attack
    • "Black Milk" knocks me off my feet in this collection of moody and eclectic songs. Massive Attack uses samples and keyboards in a very unique way, but not all the songs pack the same punch.

  • Haunted

    • 10 out of 10
    • Poe
    • Dropping like a bomb on some of the blah musical offerings of her contemporaries, Haunted was one of the best albums of 2000, obliterating the competition.

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  • Never Let Me Down [ECD]

    • 4 out of 10
    • David Bowie
    • It must be a lonely place to be considered David Bowie's worst album by just about everyone, including the artist himself. As the last album before Bowie "rebooted" and formed the band Tin Machine, "N
  • Billy Miles

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    • Billy Miles
    • Take the voice of a young Billie Holiday and stuff it into a svelte, petite body with the face of an angel, and you have some idea of what it's like to experience the music of Billy Miles in her self-
  • Trouble

    • 8 out of 10
    • Ray LaMontagne
    • At first, Ray LaMontagne might strike you as just another breathy-voiced knockoff of folk/rock guitarists like John Mayer and Jack Johnson. But he's actually got a better voice than either, he tell

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NIH: Ear Damage From Excessive Volume ‘Needs More Study’

In a Feb. 14 letter made available on Tuesday, James Battney said that "more research is required to determine if a particular type (of earphone) increases the risk [to hearing]," according to a Reuters article. Mr. Battney is the director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Mr. Battney was responding to a request from Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), who said that he is working with fellow Representative Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) to encourage the NIH to review research on the matter.

The issue came to the forefront in recent months given the increasing popularity of MP3 players -- since Apple's iPod is the top selling such device, it has been implicated as part of a possible hearing damage epidemic. Mr. Battney indicated the earbud headphones, which come with the iPod and similar devices, "project sound directly into the ear canal, while traditional earmuff-style headphones allow the sound to diffuse," the Reuters piece said.

However, Mr. Battney indicated that a 1990 NIDCD conference said that "sounds of sufficient intensity and duration could damage the ear and result in temporary or permanent hearing loss at any age."

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