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...this company, CEO of that firm. That's now. Flashback 15 years though, and they were probably as unexciting as her male classmates at Harvard. Sigh, the boys. Suddenly, she sits up at the rumble of a truck, realizing that she must show the garage repair person the ailing pulley...
While many Harvard athletic teams have entire buildings furnished with state-of-the-art machinery devoted solely to their use, Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) patrons are crammed into a few small rooms. The MAC's weight lifting equipment--most of which was built when the pulley was the hot new invention and steel existed only in science fiction--fits snugly into three rooms of the building's hot and stuffy basement. The machines are as inadequate in number as they are in quality; users often must wait in line to use the MAC's two bench presses and meager selection...
...knows, it is often the small gesture that can make an inhospitable world seem welcoming. After a sunglasses vendor in Palatine, Illinois, advertised her sign-language skills, people with hearing impairments flocked to her stand to discuss frame shapes and lens tints. At the Chicago Botanic Garden, shelves and pulley systems enable wheelchair users to inspect a special exhibit. In the rest rooms there, a cheap innovation safeguards the disabled from the nasty scaldings their legs routinely endure in public places: the hot-water pipes beneath the sinks are wrapped with insulation. When a business takes the time to consider...
...play's most successful sequence, Ward is humiliated by two masked figures who dance around him, ripping out pages from his book and stuffing them in his mouth. As he begs for mercy, he is raised by a pulley and left to dangle in the air. The scene is cast in a red light, effectively evoking a hellish atmosphere. The torturers re costumed in sensuously textured clothing, making Ward's torment appear like a circus...
Doctors now know that RSI is not a single disease, but a cluster of syndromes. In computer users, the problem often starts in the muscles or tendons (the long pulley-like bundles of fiber that direct the movement of the fingers) and in the sheaths surrounding the tendons. Keyboards tend to force the upper body into unnatural positions -- hands bent, arms akimbo, wrists cocked -- straining the tendons and muscles and reducing circulation. Computer "mice" can be just as troublesome; users tend to grip the devices too hard, often with the wrist extended up, creating more work for the hands...