Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must be free, not to save the world in a glorious crusade, not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain, but to practice with all the skill of our being, the art of making possible," Clinton said, quoting from a favorite poem...
...wrists were tingling a little bit in pain; I knew it was from the typing I was doing, yet I persisted. I wanted to finish the program I was working on in lab here before going home for a long weekend. However, three days later when the weekend arrived, my wrists hurt so much that it was difficult for me to open a door, brush my teeth or do any of the daily tasks I had taken for granted. Typing, of course, was out of the question. What I had also discovered was how easy it is to get repetitive...
...exams, University Health Services (UHS) sees 10 to 14 new cases of RSI each day. In addition, according to the disabilities office, more than 40 students required special provisions on exams this spring because of RSI symptoms. Of course, these figures do not include the many students suffering from pain who have not sought help from the University...
...every House there should be at least one tutor trained to help those suffering from the early stages of RSI and who can help students design their work spaces more ergonomically. Companies including Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have specialists on ergonomics to help employees who are feeling RSI pain; Harvard students work extended hours at the keyboard, too, so it would be reasonable to have trained tutors performing this educational role here. Most of all, few students realize how quickly RSI can set in and information should stress the rapidity of its progression...
...page. A much better program exists (Dragon NaturallySpeaking), is inexpensive ($170 for the multiple-user edition) and allows one to write papers at roughly the same speed as one would type them. The program should also be available for use in all House computer labs--accessible to anyone in pain, not just those who have filed paperwork with the disabilities office. This lack of software has caused individual organizations, including The Crimson, to purchase NaturallySpeaking so students can participate actively in their extracurriculars...