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Does anybody remember RSI? A year ago, even the few of us unsure of what the dread acronym stood for (for the record, both repetitive strain injury and repetitive stress injury are correct) knew enough to tremble at the slightest twinge in our wrists. Idle hands would lapse unconsciously into the aptly-named "prayer stretch" as we invoked our various patron saints to protect us from the debilitating disease. These days, however, as the "RSI Action Group" mousepads at email terminals start to fray at the edges, the former scourge of the keyboard seems about as threatening as scurvy...
...stories of Harvard s own undergraduate RSI sufferers do suggest that ergonomics are a vital aspect of both the chronic injury and its cure. Daniel W. Suleiman 99, a Crimson editor, noticed "something in my hands" a year ago. Pretty soon it was unbearable. "I could not write, I could not type. These tendons were just inflamed and there was nothing to do but nurse them back. The fact is, by the time you notice anything, that s it, you ve already...
...There are profound, lasting changes which have occurred in the family," Gephardt said. "We send one-third less time with our children than a generation ago...
Founded five years ago as part of the University's focus on interdisciplinary study, ESPP is one of the most wide-ranging concentration in the College. Concentrators must take 16 half courses in the natural and social sciences, including chemistry, mathematics, biology, economics and government...
...When we began this concentration six years ago, we anticipated two dozen concentrators, and now there are over 100," McCarthy says. "The concentration came into being because students wanted it. [It's] pretty successful, I would...