Word: problem
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...bought the new keyboard, had the tray, had the chair, and have been typing the whole year. Now my back and neck are still a little problematic but I don t say I have RSI anymore. I have a bad back." If it wants to deal with the problem, he believes, the University has a responsibility to "install the proper workstations in every single room. If they want you to live on campus and they re going to provide you with a desk, they should supply you with the correct desk...since they supply you with a desk...
...Prof. Harrington s introduction of a cultural context might, it seems, be usefully applied to the discussion of RSIs at Harvard. One of the central RSI mysteries is its reputation as a strictly Harvard problem. Last year, even as the least fatalistic Harvard undergraduates began to resign themselves to the inevitability of voice-activation software and scribes (a combination of high-tech wizardry and ancient luxury that did have a certain appeal), it was hard to ignore the fact that our long-distance boyfriends and high school roommates and co-salutatorians attending other similarly stressful and high-powered colleges...
...lack of confidence in democracy is a serious problem which should be addressed before it sinks the ship of American government, House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said yesterday in a speech at the ARCO Forum...
...travel. The eponymous hero of Herge's series is a young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...
...review finds the program in "good health," according to Dean ofthe Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, but students past and present are protesting the elimination of the seminar, saying the interdisciplinary concentration has all too few unifying elements and its elimination will only exacerbate the problem...