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...Powell did for the piano what Charlie Parker did for the saxophone. Together, and with no small assist from Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie, they took a hand in fearlessly turning jazz inside itself, then inside out, as they created bebop. But Powell found distinctive melodic nuances on his keyboard. He wasn't as witty and romantic as Nat Cole or as exuberant a geometrician as Art Tatum, both non-beboppers. But he could find a secret, personal vibrancy on a standard like Jerome Kern's Yesterdays, or combine a dark heart with a soaring spirit in such tunes...
...With keyboard injuries rising, the government is set to step...
...could slow down the light-speed pace of the information revolution. There is hardly a company in the industrialized world that hasn't tried to boost productivity by moving work onto computers. Some 70 million Americans -- including more and more schoolchildren -- already spend part of their workday at a keyboard. When the so-called information highway gets built, they could spend even more of their days and nights hunched over glowing screens, bodies perfectly still except for their fingers flying over the keys...
...When typing, keep hands relaxed and fingers gently curved. Your hands should float easily above the keyboard...
...Keep wrists in a neutral position -- not twisted or strained -- at the keyboard. The same applies to other activities such as holding a steering wheel, a tennis racket or a pencil...