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Presidential 'Pod.


When President Bush sets out on one of his 18-mile mountain-bike rides, he takes along a familiar motivator: an iPod loaded with country and rock tunes. What kind of music gets the presidential, heart rate up to a chest-pounding 170 beats per minute beats per minute Cardiac pacing The unit of measure for the frequency of heart depolarizations or contractions each minute–or pulse rate ? The "First iPod" is heavy with traditional. country singers like George Jones This articlearticle or section has multiple issues:
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" (Oh, put me in coach / I'm ready to play today). The President has had his iPod since July 2004, when he received it as a birthday gift from his daughters. He has around 250 songs on it--a fraction of the 10,000 it can hold. Bush doesn't have time to download the music himself. That job falls to Blake Gottesman, the President's personal aide, who buys individual, songs and albums from the iTunes music store.
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Title Annotation:George W. Bush' iPod
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 5, 2005
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