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What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers' murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have...
MUSIC . . . DOC CHEATHAM & NICHOLAS PAYTON: It?s the jazz equivalent of stunt casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis prot?g?, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and...
--Pregnant women, steer clear of smoke. Exposure to PASSIVE SMOKE--even small amounts--can significantly increase the odds of giving birth to a baby whose lungs don't function properly. The damage begins in utero when chemicals from cigarette smoke cause less oxygen to go from mother to fetus.
There are also attendants stationed throughout the museum who explain some of Da Vinci's other well-known interests, such as his dissections. Staff members at the museum demonstrate to visitors the dissection of sheep eyes, hearts or lungs.
--Another downside to being outsized. Obesity for women may be the leading risk factor for developing BLOOD CLOTS in the lungs. In a major study, overweight women had triple the normal risk of lung clots.