He'd learned by ear, but he was very musical.

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She'd be grinning ear to ear.

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Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells.

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From that image, the 3-D printer produced a soft mold of the ear.

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In fact, these things are so comfortable that you could wear them for long, long periods of time and we'd wager you remain comfortable, without any ear fatigue.

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Pig's trotter and pig's ear salad is a little too hardcore for me, but D loves it.

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The Cornell team started with a 3-D camera that rapidly rotates around a child's head for a picture of the existing ear to match.

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This wasn't a clot of esoteric names and dates I'd dozed through in high school history, like the Habsburg Succession or the War of Jenkins's Ear.

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