Word: desks
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...request) keyboard trays to have them installed. But this addresses the furniture problem only after the fact. One of the most important aspects of preventing RSI is setting up a proper workstation. "What's really necessary," Goodman says, "is to get the right height for the person using the desk." He went on to say that "in an ideal world, the University would provide desks with adjustable keyboard trays and adjustable chairs for everyone," though he admitted that this "might be an expensive way to not solve the problem." The reason, he explained, is that average computer users...
What this means is that education about RSI must come simultaneously with the complete replacement of every desk and chair in student dormitories. Hassel said that within the next five years, "all the desks that can be retrofitted will be retrofitted" with non-adjustable keyboard trays. But this will still leave a substantial number of desks without keyboard trays, and the glaring problem of not having adjustable chairs will persist. For as Goodman pointed out, a non-adjustable keyboard tray will not necessarily be the right height for everyone...
...longitudinal study" of the prevalence of RSI is underway, Hassel told me, but until it's completed (and who knows when that will be) we have an epidemic to deal with. My adjustable chair should be arriving today, courtesy of Harvard, and as of last week I have a desk with a non-adjustable keyboard tray. But I could have used them before I had to stop typing...
...explains that the prime time for viewing is usually around midnight, when people are going to sleep. "That's just the one time when everyone has to get naked, and when I'm sitting at my desk looking out the window. It's so much more interesting to see someone walk perfectly unashamed across their common room and check their e-mail in the nude than to check your own e-mail...
...After an exchange of personal attacks in press interviews, Berezovsky declared that Chubais' days in government were numbered. The oligarchs followed through, it seems, using their access to the Kremlin's front office. One recent morning, a prominent Moscow businessman says, a report "was placed on the President's desk"--obviously by one of Yeltsin's top aides--and Yeltsin actually read it. The memo warned that Chubais' rosy reports on the economy and payment of salaries to state employees were not only inaccurate but were "disinformation." Says the businessman: "Yeltsin knows nothing about the economy...