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i <br />sto <br />logo <br />er... Pre_00 <br />Minnesota's First Newspaper Metro Final <br />vee a n"Oleo <br />-t . <br />ay- <br />hrpaten.. <br />e arina <br />g,,..he. <br />By Jane E. Brody <br />New York Times Aec. <br />New York -In trying to track a suspected Soviet submarine <br />in October, the Swedish navy had difficulty finding :tailor:; <br />who could hear well enough to operate the listening devise;;. <br />The hearing of vast numbers of young people, a navy captain <br />said, apparently has been permanently damaged by years of lister,i.n" <br />-to loud rock music. <br />Whether or not music is the culprit in Sweden, similar heari.-.,.- <br />losses have been noted among American high school and college <br />students who are rock music aficionados or frequent discotheque::, <br />and hearing loss resulting from abusive noise has become a <br />matter of pressing concern in this country, too. <br />For example, Dr. David Lipscomb, head of the noise <br />at the University of Tennessee, recently found that more tnan 60 <br />percent of 1,410 college freshmen had significant hearing loas <br />.in the high -frequency range, a deficit he believe; is increasing <br />at, an alarming rate. Just one year earlier he had found h i lrh- <br />frequency hearing loss in 33 percent of the freshmen tc..Aed. <br />lie described the students as "two or three decades ahead o them <br />selves in hearing deterioration." <br />A Japanese survey this year of 4,500 students revealed <br />unexplained hearing difficulties in 29, 21 of whom were described <br />as "headphone addicts." These 21 students listened to atereo <br />headphones (Sony Walkmans and the like) for more than 24 houro <br />a week at volumes that averaged SS decibles, the approx.imiie <br />noise level of rush-hour traffic. <br />