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To: LindyBill who wrote (94392)	1/9/2005 12:17:10 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 793817

I am listening to classical as I post this. :>) Beating bad behavior By Joshua Claybourn - In The Agora The most recent edition of The Economist has a fascinating brief on classical music and social control. A grocery store trying to stop youths from loitering in front of the store and annoying customers decided to play classical music where they congregate. The result? The kids left. Now some are finding that it has even greater effects preventing grafiti and vandalism in underground stations. In London, for instance, classical music fills 30 stations. The most effective deterrents, according to a spokesman for Transport for London, are anything sung by Pavarotti or written by Mozart. The key factor, according to Adrian North, a psychologist at Leicester University, is its unfamiliarity. When the targets are unused to strongs and woodwind, Mozart will be sufficient. But for the more musically literate vandal, an atonal barrage probably works better.

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