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...comparison, initiatives with broad-based support--like a bill supported by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and leaders of Digitas and the Harvard Computer Society and designed to remodel to Science computer terminals and protect students from acquiring carpal tunnel syndrome--were termed "irrelevant" by council executives. The practical and relevant was sacrificed to the obscure and trivial...

Author: By --stealers Wheel, | Title: 'The New UC': Crusaders and Lunatics | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

Local advocates for victims of carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive strain injuries (RSI) will hold a meeting tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. at Dudley House's Graduate Student Lounge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RSI Talk Planned | 3/20/1996 | See Source »

Such was daily life for Sofia I. Echegaray '97-'98, who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a muscular disease which afflicts one's wrists and renders even the most basic acts painful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrist Ailment Forces Student to Withdraw | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

Echegaray said she first experienced symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome last year as a student in Computer Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrist Ailment Forces Student to Withdraw | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

...employer has been a more in-your-face foe of OSHA than UPS. Last month the company joined a coalition of 250 business and trade groups that stifled OSHA's attempts to develop a standard aimed at reducing the incidence of conditions like carpal-tunnel syndrome, an inflammatory wrist ailment triggered by repetitive motion. The victory was won even before the agency had a chance to issue the proposed standards for discussion. UPS called the regulations "intrusive, expensive [and] paperwork producing" in an influential letter to House members. The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that monitored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAULING UPS'S FREIGHT | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

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