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While technology has assisted many students the increasing use of computers in courses has also contributed to students' RSI. Commonly associated with excessive typing, RSI is the fastest-growing disability at Harvard...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Seeks to Empower the Disabled | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Many developing countries are now facing exploding rates of infection that far outstrip those seen in the U.S., both in magnitude and rate of growth. More than 90 percent of all new HIV cases are in developing countries. It was in Manipur, India, in the early 1990s that the fastest growth rate of HIV infection in the world was recorded. Within less than 18 months, rates of infection among the city's intravenous drug users skyrocketed from less than 2 percent to more than 90 percent. India now has more than 5 million cases of HIV, more than any other...

Author: By Vivek H. Murthy, | Title: Grappling With AIDS Globally | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Menick] isn't one of the fastest or the biggest backs, but he knows how to get through holes," Birk said. "He isn't afraid to lower his shoulders or to go up against the linebacker or the defensive back. He's good at taking care...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Line Clears Path for Harvard's Explosive Offense | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...Another harbinger of prosperity, purchases of durable goods such as cars or computers, shot up by 18.2 percent in quarter three, the best spike in nine-and-a-half years. Overall consumer spending rose at a 5.8 percent annual rate, its fastest increase in five-and-a-half years. And ? better sit down ? business spending on heavy equipment such as trucks or turbines soared at a 24.1 percent rate, the best since the final three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the Good Times Roll | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...hate to shop") Siegel, CEO of the Mills Corp. in Arlington, Va. He has fashioned perhaps the only hot trend in mass retail: value megamalls, or outlet centers with huge doses of entertainment. This concept has made Mills, which operates as a real estate investment trust, the nation's fastest-growing, publicly traded mall developer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MALL, THE MERRIER | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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