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...study showed that the majority of computer-related injuries - 93% - happened at home. In all age groups, the most frequently diagnosed injury was laceration, making up 39% of cases. For adults, the leading cause of injury was hitting or getting caught on a part of a computer (37% of cases). Falling computer equipment accounted for 21% of cases, the second highest cause of injury, and among adults, hands, feet, arms and legs were the most frequently wounded parts of the body, making up 57% of all injuries. (See pictures of vintage computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Computer Hazard: Dropping One on Your Foot | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...mouse or keyboard to a scanner or piece of computer furniture. Children, on the other hand, got hurt most often by climbing on or playing near computer equipment. Injuries among small children accounted for a disproportionate number of all accidents, which most concerned the study's authors. "Children under age 5 had the highest overall injury rates, as well as the highest injury-rate increase of any age group," says McKenzie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Computer Hazard: Dropping One on Your Foot | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...last entries in her acclaimed online journal, amis95.blogspot.com. The name roughly translates as "my 95 years." That was how old López--who died May 20 at 97--was when she began posting on the blog that her grandson created as a birthday gift. At an age when some elderly women might unwittingly put a floppy disc into a CD drive, López became a worldwide Internet sensation, reaching more than 1.5 million far-flung readers from the comfort of her seaside hometown in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mariá Amelia López | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...human-rights lawyer in the 1980s, he defended student protesters who fought the then dictatorial regime. In 2002, Roh--who never attended college--stunned South Korea's élite with his upset presidential-election victory. Less than seven years later, on May 23, he committed suicide at age 62 by jumping off a cliff while hiking near his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roh Moo Hyun | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...film producer in the South, and his wife, Choi Eun-hee, a famous actress. Shin was imprisoned for four years, then forced to make a socialist-friendly version of Godzilla. He and his wife eventually escaped during a business trip to Vienna in 1986. Shin died in 2006 at age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailed U.S. Reporters: Business As Usual for North Korea | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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