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...TWIST It's amazing the contortions some people will go through to retrieve luggage from the overhead bin on an airplane. Rotating your spine while putting extra pressure on it can lead to muscle or ligament strain if you're lucky?and a herniated disk if you're not. Point your toes in the direction in which your hands are moving, say the experts. Then, when you have lowered your bag, you can turn your whole body to head down the aisle...
...breadth is evidence of the extensive research and interviews conducted by the authors. “One of the things we realized in our research,” Corbett says, “if this book was a DVD, we’d have an extra disk of stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor...
...TWIST It's amazing the contortions some people will go through to retrieve luggage from the overhead bin on an airplane. Rotating your spine while putting extra pressure on it can lead to muscle or ligament strain if you're lucky--and a herniated disk if you're not. Point your toes in the direction in which your hands are moving, say the experts. Then, when you have lowered your bag, you can turn your whole body to head down the aisle...
Every year, at least 200,000 Americans with chronic lower back pain turn to spinal-fusion surgery for relief. The Food and Drug Administration has approved an alternative called the Charit. It's an artificial disk--high- density plastic sandwiched between metal plates--designed to replace the natural fluid-filled disks of the lower spine when they are damaged by degenerative disk disease. Doctors hope the Charit, which has been used in Europe since 1987, will allow patients more freedom of movement than the spinal-fusion procedure...
...Several other models are standouts: the Rio Forge ($139 for 128 MB, $169 for 256 MB or $199 for 512 MB) is a 7.5-cm-wide, disk-shape player with a rubberized rim and a slot for adding up to 1 GB of extra memory. JetAudio's iAudio U2 is one of the only flash players with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and comes in a jazzy red ($149 for 256 MB) and cool blue ($199 for 512 MB). And the upcoming Rocbox ($160 for 256 MB) from Roc Digital, a new company formed by hip-hop and fashion mogul...