Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wednesday, March 18: Same old pain. My computer jockey lifestyle has flashed before me: the all-nighters for Computer Science 50 and philosophy papers; the 700 e-mails per month; the incessant clicking of the mouse button for web browsing. Frighteningly, this evening I started to have a painful tugging in one of the tendons of my right forearm. I did not write my tutorial paper for fear of doing further damage. I have begun to enlist friends and strangers in the computer lab to type messages...
...Student Disabilities Resource Center. The doctor had me take nine Advils a day for pain. I signed up for training in Dragon Dictate, voice recognition software available in Harvard's Adaptive Technology Lab. Made an appointment with my tutorial leader to explain why I could not write my paper. Horoscope said I should expect to have to drastically change my lifestyle...
...made more readily available through advertisements and information sessions. Efforts to educate students and prevent debilitating RSI must continue until this Gen X plague no longer seems to be spreading across campus at near-epidemic rates. Meanwhile, stop typing, stretch your wrists and walk away from your computer. The paper can wait...
...known to friends and true fans, is also the subject of four quickie books currently on various New York Times best-seller lists. Explains Bari Nan Cohen, who as entertainment editor of YM is well-versed in teen idoldom: "A lot of girls would go see Leo open a paper bag right now." If you want to understand why this is so, go see The Man in the Iron Mask yourself and one answer will be readily apparent: he is not his co-star Gerard Depardieu...
...stanzas and in his remarks about poetry in general, which he sees slipping into sloppy populism. "There are a lot of Sunday painters out there; they don't expect their paintings to hang in museums. But every time someone puts down his feelings on a piece of paper, he expects to be published. It's an art, after all," McClatchy says. "It's not just a feel-good sort of thing...