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The stories were written, so to speak, in front of a mirror, by a man hoping to drown the tiny, shivering thrills of the chronic bookworm with the low snarl of a more universal emotion, that of dread.
NEWYORKER: Fright Nights
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People using earbuds with lower sound quality attempt to drown out background noise and enhance audio clarity by increasing the volume to dangerous levels.
ENGADGET: Future Sonics debuts Atrio Special Edition professional earphones
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Though hard knowledge of the risks is scant to nonexistent, guesses by the government's mad-cow experts suggest that the average Briton is 60 times more likely to die by lightning, 750 times more likely to drown in the bathtub, 24, 000 times more likely to die playing soccer.
ECONOMIST: Tough on death, tough on the causes of death