Scientists say 1 in 10 iPod users could go deaf  European Union
scientists declare that 1 in 10 MP3 listeners could lose their
hearing because they're playing their music too loud.  If you
spend more than an hour a day in deep intimacy with your iPod,
your Zune, or some other MP3 machine, a group of important
scientists would like you to turn it down and listen to them.
The EU's Scientific Committee on emerging health risks, which is
normally concerned with noise in factories and the British
Parliament, performed a study of MP3 usage.  The committee
members' findings left them with a strange ringing feeling. They
concluded that an hour's iPod usage a day for five years might
make as many as 1 in 10 listeners deaf.  The problem, the
committee believes, is that many people love to listen to their
music too loud.  In Europe, MP3 players are limited to a mere
100 decibels. However, these European scientists concluded that
anything above 89 decibels listened to with regularity has an
effect that is louder than th