Word: dropping
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...everyone sees a drop, however. Rachel W. Podolsky 00, co-chair of the RSI Action Group, attests that there is a significant number of students who are reporting RSIs this year, a population she labels a "large but silent majority." Indeed, Dr. Coley s numbers do not show a total disappearance, merely a dip. Even this trend, however, is puzzling. Why, in a student population that uses computers every bit as much as it did last year, should the RSI flag? Where, for that matter, did it come from in the first place...
...maybe the RSI story is a success story. Dr. Coley believes that it is. He sees the drop in cases stemming from an increase in awareness and the concomitant employment of preventative measures. These are the beginnings of what he hopes will be a "culture of healthy computing." For him, RSIs are "largely mechanical problems," and the solution is therefore mechanical as well. As he noted, "Recent studies of white-collar work environments show that enforced ergonomic changes have helped with the problem...
Former and current students of the seminar joined the letter-writing campaign, saying they were disappointed with the decision to drop the course...
...order for Harvard students to receive Pell Grants, they must have a high enough level of need to also receive a Harvard grant. Since all students who are on aid theoretically have all their "demonstrated need" met, any extra money from Washington Harvard's funding should drop by a corresponding amount...
...Hits From the Bong" in the Science Center terminal room? Don't I fight for my right to party? I smile as I recall the wealthy, cookie-cutter suburb of New York City where I grew up. Maybe I'm not quite ready to break out the turntables and drop rhymes like my childhood in a multi-acre, tree-lined estate compels me to. But at least my relationship with hip-hop goes beyond a fondness for the Fat Boys. Because when I was growing up, everyone's father was a lawyer, and everyone's mother was a real estate...