Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.

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Ms Gilmore and her team found that, in the 12 months after the smoking ban came into force, some 1, 200 fewer people were admitted to hospital with heart attacks than even the prevailing downward trend had suggested was likely.

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