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Computer technology poses job-related illness problems, says union leader.
The proliferation of electronics and computer technology in the workplace over the last two to three decades will soon produce a torrent of new job-related illness and disease, a major Canadian union says. Domestically abused women in Ontario will now have a provincewide telephone hotline to call for help, the provincial government announced Wednesday. Women may soon opt for a new type of contraceptive, a hormone-emitting flexible plastic ring they slide into the vagina once a month to prevent pregnancy. She walks a bit slower and her hearing isn't what it used to be. But Fumi Chinen, just a few months shy of her 100th birthday, hasn't given much thought to retirement.