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...strain aside, my worry is not that we spend so much time looking at little things so near, but rather that soon we won't have a choice. Modern technology brings ever-increasing proportions of work and play to our monitors with amazing efficiency and convenience. No matter how modern the technology, however, it can't show us anything bigger than the physical area of our monitors or farther away than the physical distance of our monitors from our chairs...
Many other universities, including Brown, Oregon State, University of Washington and Northwestern, have already blocked access to Napster due to the excessive strain that its software was causing on their servers...
...dean of the College or dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could recommend that HASCS restrict access to Napster's service. The General Counsel's office could do the same, or Steen could decide to block Napster due to a strain on network resources...
...thing that won't change is the amount of strain that accompanies a job in baseball. "It's not for everybody," DePodesta admits. "As it turns out, it's what I want to do, but you have to understand the reality of the position. You have to realize the unbelievable amount of work involved and the level of commitment you have to have, or you'll be miserable...
CATTLE CALL Scientists have been speculating for years that plying the nation's livestock with antibiotics may be creating superresistant bacteria in humans. Here's new evidence: after contact with cattle on his family's farm, a 12-year-old Nebraska boy became infected with the same antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella that had sickened the cows. Using a "molecular fingerprint," researchers confirmed that the cow bug and human bug were indeed one and the same...