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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Load-Lightening Backpack

A few hardcover textbooks in a school backpack are enough to cause muscle strain. Lawrence C. Rome of the University of Pennsylvania and of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and his colleagues have developed a backpack suspension system that minimizes stress on its wearer. As... Sign in to see full entry.

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