Julie and Rasmus seem more interested right now in building up their musical skills and practising their vocals but just before I leave the youth club, to give my ears a break from the screeching electric guitars, Julie says she would like to add something to the comments she has given me.

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But Mr Clinton has his fingers in his ears: his administration failed to give the doctor a seat on the presidential advisory commission on Medicare, and generally ignores him.

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Best of all perhaps, they're intimate: When I give someone headphones, I can think of myself whispering in their ears.

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According to Jens Rydell and Winston Lancaster at Gothenburg University in Sweden, the majority of Scandinavian moths have tiny ears tuned to the ultrasonic pulses that bats emit as they give chase.

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