HEALTH ISSUE: SHORT CUTS

SHORT CUTS Even an hour of listening to iPod can damage hearing    Cranking up your iPod or MP3 player even for an hour daily can cause irreparable damange to your hearing, a new study has claimed. Scientists in Europe have shown that listening to music on headphones for an hour can have a temporary impact on people's hearing because of the damage caused to the hair cells in the outer ear, Participants in the study had their hearing tested and were then asked to listen to pop or rock music for six one-hour-long sessions using two different types of headphones and at varying, preset volumes, the Daily Telegraph reported, After each session, the scientists measured the responses of the 21 men and women aged between 19 and 28 to a very short sound and then two sounds of different frequencies to see how clearly participants could hear the tones. 'Chimps are ruthless killers':       If you think chimpanzees are cuddly, think again, for researchers claim that the mankind's closest cousins in the animal world are ruthless killers with a taste for gang warfare, A new study of wild chimpanzees found that gangs of the apes routinely attack rival chimps to seize their land and massacre their young, preserving their cominanc, the Daily Mail reported.