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...fingers. The most frequent cause of RSI, at least for college students, is excess work at computer stations--especially in our rooms and on our particularly damaging laptops. Ideally, monitors should be at eye-level and keyboards should be positioned so that the user can type comfortably with unbent wrists. Wrist pads for the keyboard and mouse can in fact hinder proper hand position, though the evidence is inconclusive. Trackball devices are recommended by some sufferers as healthier alternatives to the mouse. Some advise keeping your hands warm as a way to protect them against RSI. In addition...
...seven have unbent to the extent of preparing to make major food and medical-aid shipments this winter to save lives. For the first time they intend to bypass the center and distribute at least some of it to the republics. But when British Prime Minister John Major visited Kennebunkport last week, George Bush repeated some other conditions for a more general aid program: substantial cuts in Soviet military spending and a reduction in Moscow's aid to Cuba. Major agreed, and was prepared to pass along that message on a Sunday visit to Moscow, where he was slated...
...Carter unbent enough to join reporters, including TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, on the bow deck one evening for an unaccustomed hour of chitchat. He gave a peculiarly detailed recital of the horsepower ratings of tugboats passing through Lock 26 on the Mississippi. He also offered some personal glimpses. He reads literary potboilers, he said. When? "I read in the bathroom." He disclosed that when in Washington he keeps a diary: "It's amazing how detailed mine is." When a reporter recalled that Mark Twain had called Congress the only "distinctly native criminal class," Carter joked that the remark...
...that Carter's unsubtle, missionary foreign policy style and his human rights campaign were hurting detente and East-West relations. But Chancellor and President took pains to mute their differences, and both sides considered the meeting "an atmospheric success." Schmidt-whom Carter had called "Helmut" all along-finally unbent enough to address the President as "Jimmy." At one remarkable moment, Schmidt, an amateur organist, grabbed the baton from the conductor of the Marine Corps band and led the group in the rousing final measures of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...Schecter, a veteran of three previous shuttles, there is little time for relaxation on the airborne Middle East shuttle. "What I need is a fur-lined straitjacket," sighed the Secretary of State as he climbed aboard his Air Force 707 after a hard day's negotiating, and unbent in the correspondents' aft cabin, which newsmen have christened "the torture chamber...