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Living in Stereo

A deaf man finds out why hearing with two ears is better than one.


Michael Chorost dealt with hearing loss all his life because his mother contracted rubella when she was pregnant with him.  He had used hearing aids since the age of three, but gave up on his right ear in the 1980s after it gradually died. In 2001, the left ear died too. That's all changed. As he writes, "On January 24, 2008, I sat in my audiologist’s office waiting to have my new right ear turned on. For the first time in 30 years, I was about to hear in stereo again." 

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