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...People working under pressure tighten up; muscles cramp, shoulders hunch, necks get knotted -- further straining tendons and muscles. Deadlines, speedups and employee monitoring programs can exacerbate the trouble. RSI sufferers also must deal with the skepticism and resentment of co-workers (who may have to pick up the slack) and the knowledge that their productivity has been impaired. This can lead to a vicious cycle in which the victims are so worried about their jobs that they work even harder, making their hands and arms worse...
Probably it works this way: after years of riding the Shetland pony across the | slack wire above the center ring, you begin to wonder if you could do it blindfolded. Sure, easy. But if the pony were blindfolded? If you were both blindfolded and you were juggling live electric eels? Something like this may have gone through Ed McBain's mind as this master began There Was a Little Girl (Warner; 323 pages; $21.95), his 80th or maybe 160th crime novel. Could he, for instance, just to make things interesting, write a thriller in which his hero gets shot...
...similarly well off. It loses all-American linebacker Chris Zingo, but Zingo's two linebacking partners, seniors John Vitullo and John Wagner, are back and should almost compensate for his loss. The squad's defensive line and secondary--both extremely experienced--should take up the rest of the slack...
Shame is stuffed with such slack reasoning and prose. But bad writers deserve the same freedoms as good ones. If, as is to be hoped, Nasrin gets out of her troubles, she may even prove that persecution is a smart career move...
...Harvard is not all work. It seems that if you want to slack nearly all term, you can, because of reading periods. As one member of the class of 1996 put it "I've never played so much Sega Soccer in my life...