Sources have suggested if you listen to your ipod frequently, and loudly, do your ears a favor and turn it down. The small ear buds included with the Ipods pump music directly into the ear canal, making it very easy to cause permanent damage and hearing loss. Our inner ears are filled with small hair cells (about 15,000 in each) that are responsible for transmitting sound to the brain. With age and exposure to loud noise we lose some of our (ear) hair which can ultimately lead to hearing loss. Close to 30 percent of the baby boomer generation has experienced some form of hearing loss. Even rock legend and former Who member Pete Townshend is advising people to listen less and at a lower volume. He states that listening to loud music with headphones over the years has seriously damaged his hearing.  Hearing loss among college students is becoming more common 

     
     Jason Gilbert lays out the top 5 sports
     celebrations of all time

     Scott Farr tells everyone about what games will be
     the best for the upcoming NFL season.

     The Ravens baseball team lost three juniors to
     the Major League Baseball draft last year. Joe
     Fagella has the scoop on who's filling their shoes
     this season. 
 

Even Generation Dinosaur has hear about blogging, although they might not know to use sites like Technorati to search blogs. 
    (Technorati's tagline: "71 million blogs . . . some of them have to
     be good.)  But do they know that you don't have to create a full
     -fledged blog - which, of course, you can do for free at places like
     Blogger.  You can create a tumblelog, where you can insert
     photos, quotes, web links and more without feeling compelled
     to write the usual personal ruminations on belly button lint.
     Tumblr is our favorite site.
 

Private investigators, law firms, police databases and background checks. These are the new grounds covered by colleges and universities who are beginning to treat aspiring students as academic criminals.

 Fabrication in applications from students across the country has fueled a desire for universities and colleges to weed out the faulty applicants. A surge in the number of high school graduates (increased from 2.6 to 3.2 million in a decade) has law firms, internet
services, and admission consultants pulling out their spyglasses and investigating applications. Admission officers are even beginning to identify the cases of parental misguidance in the embellishment of the students application. Schools feel that students are
crumbling under the pressure to create memorable applications.