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...shop floor to the corporate cubicle, millions of people face what some think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT. * Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age. Some 19 million people, most of them women, currently work...
Some 2 million veterans with service-related disabilities receive payments. Half of them have disabilities that in the Government's estimation impair their capabilities by no more than 30%. Examples: moderately flat feet and partly amputated fingers. Even though these problems do not seriously impair a veteran's ability to work, individuals receive up to $128 a month. Ending those payments, while giving the veterans free medical care for their disabilities, would save about $2 billion...
...instituted by the Freshman Dean's Office will be a wonderfully effective means for breaking up-and-coming freshman partiers from the bad habits of beer drinking that currently impair the social graces of many upperclassmen. Future freshmen will be able to turn to more practical and productive drinking methods, thereby achieving higher blood alcohol levels than their predecessors ever dreamed of. The administration is taking the first step towards bringing the University's much maligned student social life into a new age. Let us all raise our shot glasses to their foresight and innovation...
Despite many inspiring advances, however, corporate America still suffers from handicaps that will impair its ability to keep up with the rapid evolution of products. An oft cited complaint is the lengthy lead times between the moment an idea is conceived and the time it finally rolls off an assembly line. In U.S. auto plants, that process takes as long as five years, twice as long as in Japan...
...perhaps a fever. Although no one can get AIDS from the vaccine, recipients who respond to the inoculation may come up positive on the AIDS antibody-screening test. Other tests, however, will show that they are not really infected by the virus. Another potential drawback: the injection could impair the response to a future, more powerful vaccine. Still, NIAID has found many willing applicants, evidently motivated by a sense of responsibility to help end the epidemic...