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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Don't forget the toxic effects of loud noises on you and your child. Turn down the TV and the stereo, and protect your ears while mowing the lawn and (I know this is a pipe dream) at rock concerts. The eyes may be the window to the soul, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of Silence | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of Silence | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

It's at this stage that things get a bit complicated. Though 20 of every 1,000 babies fail the two-step screen, most prove on further examination to be just fine. Is it worth worrying 17 families of perfectly normal children--not to mention asking them to spend several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of Silence | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

There was a time when Americans were apt to connect the owning of art with the possession of virtue, but that is long gone. We know in our heart of hearts that the Rothko on the boardroom wall does not turn the saber-toothed CEO into Bambi and that some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Livable Treasure-House | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Yet there are some American collectors--just a few--whose memory lives on in a distinct aura of sweetness and reason, and at the top of that list is Duncan Phillips (1886-1966). Phillips was the kind of man who gives Wasps a good name: modest, highly educated, public spirited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Livable Treasure-House | 1/1/2000 | See Source »