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...major mover behind ergonomics. The firm has developed a line of furniture with pneumatic mechanisms that adjust backs and seats, a five-pronged chair base that prevents tipping, and molded backs that conform to the body...
Fortunately, Jo has been able to adjust to her husband's obsession. While Todd fiddles with the keyboard, she goes out with friends, gabs on the phone or just immerses herself in a bubble bath. Says she: "It gives me more time to do what I want to do. I'm glad to have the independence." But their case may be a happy exception. Throughout the nation, thousands of couples who have survived Monday Night Football, jogging and the ERA debate are facing a trickier challenge. The computer that they were told would bring the family closer together...
...Riccio, a herpes sufferer can develop the kind of psychological calm that makes recurrences milder and rarer. Most manage that within six months, according to Fordham Professor Oscar Gillespie, a co-founder of the New York Help chapter. "Given the appropriate information," Gillespie says, "90% of herpes sufferers will adjust after the initial crisis...
...himself in the dugout, "I see the same thing Al Kaline had in Detroit: an unbelievable love of the game. Yaz is an amazing man. Not fast, but he knows how to run the bases. Not big, but he learned how to pull the ball and hit home runs. Adjusting, always adjusting. When I told him Dave Stapleton was going to be my first baseman this year, and he and Tony would DH, he already had started to adjust before the conversation was over. What amazes me is his fast hands yet, his quick reactions still...
Author and Educator Norman Cousins at the Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans: "Many patients have a growing sense of impersonalization and fragmentation. They go to their doctors' offices seeking refuge from their fears and loneliness and do not adjust easily to new encounters, either with those who preside over separate domains in medical science or with highly sophisticated marvels of diagnostic technology. The conclusion is clear: doctors who spend more time with their patients may have to spend less money on malpractice insurance policies...