Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...experiences can improve symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis and asthma patients. And though patients wrote only 20 minutes a day over three consecutive days, about half of them experienced positive effects that seemed to last for months. The study is more evidence that the mind plays an important role in chronic illnesses...
...Young people screw with their minds with a variety of common bedtime behavior don ts. Cramming for work with too many all-nighters, catching z s at irregular hours or going to bed in noisy environments can induce a state of chronic insomnia, debilitating both physical performance and mental cognition. >=For people in good health, the occasional event is nothing to worry about. But if you create a bad habit, you re going to end up fatigued, your mood is going to change and your performance will be impaired,=It knocks you out, but you wake up a few hours...
When the city was racked by crime, segregation issues, chronic homelessness and other problems in the late 1970s and early 1980s, political distinctions were more clearly delineated...
...Joseph Stalin's favorite scientist, and it's easy to see why. Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism. He offered instead to solve the Soviet Union's chronic crop failures through a process he called vernalization, by which he would "train" spring wheat to be winter wheat and thus increase the number of annual harvests. Lysenko believed all living organisms passed on to succeeding generations characteristics acquired in their lifetime. This untested theory was at odds with what Lysenko scathingly called "alien bourgeois" genetics...