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Big Ben goes silent for four years starting Monday

London's Big Ben will stop chiming for four years starting on Monday to protect the hearing of workers who will be restoring the tower. Critics say safety bureaucrats managed something even the German Luftwaffe couldn't do during the blitz of WWII: Stop the bells tolling. Charlie D'Agata reports.
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