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...SAYS ALL COMPUTER KEYBOARDS HAVE TO LOOK alike? With more and more computer users complaining of wrist and arm injuries, keyboard designers are taking a fresh look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...
AMONG THE MORE EXTREME -- and less common -- cumulative traumas is carpal tunnel syndrome. It develops when tissues in the palmar side of the wrist swell, squeezing a vital nerve that runs through the area. Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause crippling pain for months or years, though surgery can sometimes help...
Workers at computer stations may position their hands over the keyboard with the sensitive wrist cocked upward or downward, compressing the tendons, ligaments and nerves that run through its narrow confines. People working with typewriters are more likely to hold their hands suspended straight forward, the wrists flat. Old-style typewriter keys also generally have a certain amount of spring, while computer keys often strike against a hard, unforgiving base. "These simple things sound trivial, but they are not when you're locked into one position, working all day long," says Marvin Dainoff, director of the Center for Ergonomic Research...
...athletic shoes, then paces briskly on a treadmill for 30 minutes. He has been doing this every day since his heart attack in 1987. He flips through six newspapers, eats a cardiologically correct breakfast, changes into his street clothes and -- with an 18-karat Cartier bracelet on his right wrist and a sleek, all-black Movado watch on his left -- descends to his apartment-house garage. There he climbs into his black Lincoln Town Car and drives across the Key Bridge to Georgetown, where he gets his thinning hair done by Bernard of Okyo...
...addition, promising sophomores Agata Passent and Kendra Harris will return to the squad with a year of varsity singles experience under their belts. Sophomore Cisca Mok, who was sidelined all last year with injuries, will miss at least the fall portion of the schedule for rehabilitation after undergoing wrist surgery over the summer...