Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...researchers, led by Dr. Bernard Lown, associate professor of Cardiology, have experimented on dogs to develop a model which permits the study of stress factors on the rhythm of the heart...
Verrier said he is "cautions" in applying the experiment's results to humans. "If it is transferable," he said, "the conclusion is that psychological stress factors such as anxiety or fear affect the stability of human cardiac rhythm to a greater degree than we expected...
...last week selected them as winners of the annual Albert Lasker research awards.- The two researchers were chosen for their development of techniques and devices that save or prolong more than 150,000 lives a year. Between them, they have made it possible to control a variety of heart rhythm disorders, to restart a stopped heart, and to convert a faulty pulse into a steady beat...
...long scene in a gym-empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises-is as carefully controlled and lovely as a fugue. It is characteristic of Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm, the bursts of quick breath from the athletes- mingle with a Gregorian chant issuing, presumably, from upstairs. The place is called, after all. the New Avenue Walk-up Gym and Cultural Center. It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical...
...switch to the Redskins, trying to figure if he can get some mileage out of the old model Nixon. So the White House has tried to sweeten the deal by throwing in some extra performers. First the White House offered Pat as a cheerleader. ("She's got wonderful rhythm," Nixon enthuses. "Just look how she keeps time when I play piano.") But Allen wants no part of a 60-year-old hand clapper...