Word: strains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caywood, who has tendonitis in his wrists, has joined the company of many other students who must deal with computer-related hand and arm injuries. These injuries are collectively known as RSI, or repetitive strain injury...
...diseases Ramazinni recognized was writer's cramp--"disease of the scribes." He says it was an injury people got from "an incessant driving of pen over paper," according to Repetitive Strain Injury, a book by Emil Pascarelli that is recommended by RSI Action members as a foremost authority on the injury...
...group has collaborated with UHS and other organizations to make mousepads that explain "the prayer stretch"--which stretches the wrist to prevent strain--and other tips for RSI prevention...
Even at 50, though, pregnancy and childbirth can put a terrible strain on a woman's body, and the demands of child rearing can do the same to both body and spirit. Some observers believe it is not fair to the child. "When that child is of college age," observes John Paris, professor of bioethics at Boston College and a Jesuit priest, speaking of the 62-year-old Italian woman's offspring, "his mother will be 80." That is, if she is still alive. "We're designing orphans by choice, and we say this is O.K.," he says...
...What is the retro bike?" those 10-speed-pedaling hordes who brave the Cambridge cobbled streets with sufficiently pneumatic tires may wonder. The retro-bike is a genre of used bike which is turning up with alarming frequency on campus. The most common strain--sorry, retro-bikers, it is becoming common--is the Raleigh frame in a rust-eaten variant of burnt umber, olive, electric blue or the ever-present black. The metallic frame comes over both the front and back wheels half-way and preferably, in the purest strains of retro-bike, has an irregularly shaped casing over...