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...Long extolled as a tonic for lazy muscles, bicycling is now being boosted as a treatment for a far more serious disability. Using a rigid cycling regimen, says Boston's Dr. Harry Bass, he has been able to help patients afflicted with emphysema, a respiratory ailment that gradually impairs breathing and kills as many as 20,000 Americans a year...
Bike therapy totally reverses the traditional rest-and-medication treatment for emphysema. "I tell patients to do more, not less," reports Dr. Bass in Medical World News. Using $20 stationary exercising bicycles, the director of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital's pulmonary division starts his patients off with three ten-minute stints a day at the pedals. By the end of the 18-week course his cyclers are working out for 30 to 45 minutes at a time...
...emerges for the first time with his own trio, as well as his own compositions. His skill extends to the inside as well as the outside of the piano. In Love No. 2, he riffles the strings, producing a wiry thring that scrolls around Charlie Haden's bass. With more songful tunes, such as Everything I Love and Margot, he applies his agile touch to the keyboard and produces some lyrical, tender moments reminiscent of Bill Evans' playing...
...some listeners and in spired others. But there was no denying the touch of a master in Jakobsleiter's expressionistic orchestral colors and its delicate, wispy, half-song half-speech. Neil Peter Jampolis' silver-staired setting, Robert Baustian's serene conducting and, among the fine cast, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm's deep, firm-voiced Gabriel only added to the success of the occasion...
...some isolated ponds where the biologists found the walking catfish, it had already become the dominant species; in canals, it was fast gaining the upper hand over such native species as bass, brim and ordinary catfish. It seems to thrive in brackish as well as fresh water, and eats shrimp, crayfish, small minnows-practically anything that happens along. When biologists poison its ponds, it indignantly leaps from the water and starts across country during the daytime, sometimes dying of sunburn in the process. On land, where it forages nocturnally for snails and pine needles, the catfish is at its most...