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...that feed the arms and hands may become constricted, depriving tissues of vital nutrients and leaving toxins in place that would otherwise get washed away. In the late stages of RSI, the tendons and muscles can deteriorate and nerves become so hypersensitized that the slightest strain -- even opening a stubborn twist-off cap -- may set off a fresh round of pain...
Muller is able to ask intelligent questions about Riefenstahl's work because he himself is a director, but this common identity is also the cause of friction between the two. Riefenstahl is still serious about filmmaking, and she is as stubborn as any other director who has an artistic vision. Some of the more amusing parts of the film occur when Muller and Riefenstahl argue about the best way to make certain scenes work...
Thus evaporated the primary reason for the economic war against Cuba. The United States continues to enforce it, partly out of habit and partly our of a stubborn sense of national pride. But these are hardly justifications for major elements of U.S. policy. As a result, the government now claims it maintains the embargo in order to coerce Castro to hold free elections and develop a free market economy...
...stubborn group of senators labored to produce a health-care reform bill before Election Day, but it looks as if the rest of the Senate thinks it will be stillborn. The "mainstream coalition" led by Sen. John Chafee today huddled with Senate leaders on how to draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid...
Even though the U.S. is the destination of choice for Cuban rafters, the millions who remain are stubborn about not wanting Washington or the exiles in Miami to cram changes down their throat. "I'm a party member, not a robot. We don't accept many things that the government does, but we are changing the country in our way," says a government official. Even entrepreneurs like Gutierrez draw the line at interference from Cuban Americans. "I'm not going to work for the people in Miami, even though a lot of them are my friends," he says. Almost...