It took around eight seconds for Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber to ensure that no one was going to confuse them for Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye. For one thing, the two UFC 132 main event fighters, combined, weigh in at not much more than Klitschko alone. And more important, unlike the heavyweight boxers, the bantamweight mixed martial artists came to fight on Saturday.
I can't do a pushup or pull-up because of rotator cuff and carpal tunnel issues. What kind of exercise moves can I do instead that will get me the same sort of gains? Thanks.
When insurers tighten the purse, hospitals and doctors are forced to take less payment for the same services. So, some hospitals are refusing some insurers altogether
The best high school hitter I've ever seen. The kid reminds me of Reggie Jackson. -- Longtime Cleveland Indians scout Bobby Malkmus, 1997
Here's another one of those tipping-point stories. It was the end of the month, when I run through the stack of household bills that pile up both on my desk and on the bill-paying page at my bank's Web site. (I'm old-fashioned. I like paper bills. I even check out the cubic zirconium comeons.) This time around, the Verizon bill for my family's four cell phones seemed a little higher than usual, so I went over the 38-page itemized bill. Like most college students, my two daughters live on their phones, but the bill had been pretty consistent. This month, however, there was a spike. Fernanda, it seems, had gotten into texting - and got hit with a $45.65 surcharge, nearly doubling her bill to $93.21.
SI.com: Rising starupdated: Wed Apr 04 2007 10:12:00
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In 2004, 3M came out with a product called the Ergonomic Mouse. More like an upright handgrip with a tracking pad attached to the bottom, the 3M mouse was notable because it kept the palm of your hand perpendicular to your work space.
Genetic testing can help predict many diseases and one day may help prevent them, but privacy concerns and fears of abuse could derail the technology's potential.
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is likely to win the support of business groups, but in one of his last cases before the nation's highest court he represented a group of states that accused Microsoft of being a monopoly.
Some People Join the Navy not knowing how to swim. I've met dog trainers who never learned to whistle, baseball players who can't spit, and executives who aren't able to knot their own neckties. We...
Offices can be dangerous places. Certainly not as dangerous as meatpacking plants, where one out of four workers falls sick or is injured each year. Still, a sedentary and stressful lifestyle can l...
FSB: Live Wireupdated: Fri Jun 01 2001 00:01:00
Now that Congress has repealed the ergonomics standard, are small businesses off the hook? Not exactly. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration can still levy fines and demand workplace c...
Like many journalists, I've long suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome, a typing-related repetitive stress injury. Last year, though, physical therapy stopped doing me any good. When my doctor menti...
Fortune: WORKING DANGEROUSLYupdated: Mon Oct 14 1996 00:01:00
In the information economy, with the routine perils of the Machine Age mostly fading memories, it may seem as though the greatest physical danger most people face on the job is carpal tunnel syndro...
Noisy office furniture hardly sounds like an example of ergonomics, the science of making the workplace more hospitable to your body and mind. But now comes an adjustable desk that beeps periodical...
Every three months David Ramsay, 38, puts in a full day on the line, working elbow to elbow with hourly employees assembling shower heads. Ramsay, who heads the biggest product line of the Waterpik...
One senses that a new front is being opened up in the great keystroke war. As the present keyboarder observed a while back, millions of personal-computer users now wage this war quite obsessively: ...