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...command of my stuff against Princeton last time, but lately I haven't had the same feel out there," Birtwell said. "After facing them last time, their hitters have an advantage because they've seen me before, but I think I have a good chance to beat them again. I don't know about a shutout, but that would be nice...
...Perhaps the most often-asked question about RSIs is one of origins. Why haven t we heard of it before? Dr. Coley answers that RSIs are not new. In fact, "cumulative stress disorders," as he calls them, have been "well-known in a few professions for a long time. Meatpackers, as well as truck drivers and seamstresses, have had to deal with RSIs for years. The best known among those trades was carpal tunnel syndrome, an inflammation of the nerves in the forearm that often resulted from strenuous work with heavy vibrations-something along the lines of working a jackhammer...
...secretaries? Indeed, a skeptic at the most recent RSI Action meeting wondered just that. Secretaries have been taking dictation, dashing off letters, typing out memoes and generally making their living by typing for over a hundred years. Why haven t they reported RSIs? One explanation is that computer keyboards are, in a sense, too easy to type on. Unlike the unbroken skittering of keyboard touchtyping, the motion of typing on a typewriter is a larger one, involving more than just the muscles of the fingers. In addition, the need to reset the page at the end of each line...
...says. "The professors of this class try to take what you believe in and then make you look at it and think about why you believe in it, what you want to do about it and how you want to go about dealing with it. This is something I haven't experienced here at Harvard often...
...There will be a total revamping of the inner structure to get it ready [for the anniversary], and we haven't exactly been keeping the place clean," he said...