Word: tunnelled
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Disabilities experts say that changes in public perceptions of disabilities, coupled with improvements in technology, have enabled more disabled students to pursue higher education at institutions such as Harvard. But increasing numbers of students are developing new disabilities such as repetitive stress injury (RSI) and carpal tunnel syndrome after they arrive at Harvard...
...systems, such as fibromyalgia and tennis elbow--even more effective, in some cases, than conventional therapies. It was judged to be a "reasonable option" for the relief of postoperative pain and low-back pain. And it won qualified endorsement as a supplement to standard remedies for drug addiction, carpal-tunnel syndrome, osteoarthritis and asthma...
...will probably not rest on the quality of these experiments. If it's cheaper and less painful than going to the hospital, and if it gets results, Americans will use it. A Boston University researcher told the panel that the saving from just faster stroke rehabilitation and effective carpal-tunnel-syndrome treatment could cut the nation's annual medical bill by $11 billion. Such a saving is sure to catch the eye of HMOs and private health insurers. As Daniel Cherkin, a senior scientific investigator for a large HMO in Seattle, puts it, "Why something works is not of interest...
Investigators are inching closer to finding the mystery car that may have sideswiped the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana shortly before it crashed in a Paris tunnel in August, reports People Daily...
...Help is coming," as she tried to sit up and get out of the car. Another early arrival, a Portuguese cleaning woman, told TIME that "Diana's head and bust were leaning on the window. She was moaning very loudly, saying, 'Aye! Aye! Aye!' Her cries reverberated through the tunnel." The princess tried to speak and was once heard to murmur, "My God." But no direct witness reports her saying anything coherent. The first two policemen on the scene found her semiconscious. One of them tried to keep her awake by "talking to her and tapping on her cheek...