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Without missing a beat, they sang the Meadow School song. They listened to their former principal, John O'Connor, now 76. More than 400 alumni returned to the school recently for the unearthing. I think people very rarely get a chance to glimpse their childhood.'' The end of the lesson is taking place today. ''I was a second grader at the time,'' recalled 39-year-old Jackie Zuckerman. Then they buried a time capsule stuffed with memorabilia of the 1960's - Creepy Crawlers, a bobby pin, Vicks cough drops, a flashlight, a flag, a troll, a dime, newspapers, essays and their own photographs - on the front lawn of the school. Thirty-three years ago, as part of a science unit on time, they covered the clocks at Meadow Elementary School in Baldwin. And it may have been the longest lesson in school history. It was a moment in time they never forgot. When this music comes on, I wait and try to get the beat with the machine. ''But my attitude is, and I'm moving around more. ''I don't think my lungs are much better because they are pretty bad,'' Ms. She did 11 repetitions using 20-pound weights on the strength-training circuit, five minutes on each. She had already walked on the treadmill, pedaled a recumbent bike and worked out for five minutes apiece on a rowing machine and step machine. Leary, a mother of 6, grandmother of 11 and recent great-grandmother who has been coming to the health club three times a week for more than two months. ''I have emphysema I'm seeing how much exercising helps,'' said Ms.

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Supplemental oxygen is provided free of charge. Though her arms were toothpick thin and frail-looking, Lorraine Leary, 75, of Hicksville stood against the wall, an oxygen tank at her side, tubes pumping air into her nose as she lifted three-pound weights. A doctor's prescription is necessary for the cardio-exercise test, performed to make sure members are capable of doing the 12-week workouts. The initial 36 monitored sessions, including a one-on-one assessment, is $500. They were very clinical and not a lot of fun.'' His vision was of a gym that would also be warm, secure and upbeat, an adult fitness hangout. ''Not everyone wants to come to a hospital setting to exercise. ''Most of the people I was seeing were not able to go to a real gym,'' he said, though they used hospital-based facilities until their insurance coverage ran out. He began toying with the idea of a specialized workout center. ''I soon found out after a year that's impossible to do by yourself going from home to home.''Ī year and a half ago, while looking at new offices for his home-care company, Home Respiratory Therapy and Equipment, he noticed an extra 3,500-square-feet space available upstairs. ''I was trying to get them in better shape, trying to do respiratory therapy rather than being an equipment dealer,'' he said.

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