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...Perhaps the sudden appearance of RSIs last year could perhaps be explained in terms of this sudden explosion in time spent at the computer. Today there seems to be an almost inverse relationship between age and computer literacy. My father takes about an hour to type out a paragraph-long email, I can with difficulty design a spreadsheet, my twelve-year-old cousin has his own website. In fact, recent articles in technology journals like Wired and PCWeek worry that "Nintendo thumb" in children might prove an early harbinger of future RSI troubles. Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer...
...their own, these neural patterns can "lower the stimulus intensity so that normally innocuous stimuli produce pain." In this model, Harvard students, aware of what they see as impending danger of RSI, might jump the gun and anticipate the pain. This would fit what Suleiman described as the almost faddish nature of the disorder, its "trendiness." Students made hyper-aware of the dangers of RSI from a sudden rash of articles in campus publications might therefore be more likely to come down with it themselves...
...debate did have a partisan spirit, despiteits almost unanimous passage by both parties.Democrats expressed concerns that the Republicanbill was intended to divert money that wouldotherwise have gone to President Clinton'seducational initiatives...
...first year at Harvard, I had met many professor, but almost no teachers. Leroy was a teacher," Okediji said...
...Harvard affiliates account for almost 10 percent of OurSquare's membership, coming in just behind Penn and ahead of Cornell, Princeton and Columbia. If you want to join the thriving on-line "100 percent private" elite, don't delay--the OurSquare folks plan to "close the community" once 5 percent of their target market joins up, leaving a scant 75,000 spots available. Reserve yours before you're doomed to be an on-line commoner...