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Computer users risk blood clots  01.04.05By REBECCA WALSH  People who sit for hours in front of a computer may be at risk of developing blood clots in their legs, a study suggests. The condition has been associated with long-haul air travel but a paper published in today’s New Zealand Medical Journal, suggests sitting still for long periods at a computer could also cause deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The researchers, led by Professor Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, have proposed the acronym "SIT" - seated immobility thromboembolism - to cover all forms of seated immobility associated...

FR: The most addictive place on the web. How addictive, did I say? The most addictive. And you, innocent FReeper, may suffer from the disease, FREEPADDICTAIDIS. But how would you know? Here are the signs: You know you've spent WAY too much time on FR when..... 1. On your driver's license, instead of a regular name, you have your screenname. --1a. double points if your family calls you that --1b. triple points if you have had your first/middle name changed to that 2. On hand-written letters, you still use HTML codes. 3. You have a poster of Jim Robinson in...