BlackBerry Thumb: Real Illness or Just Another Dumb Injury?

A new injury may be on the horizon for all you BlackBerry users.

Whatever your thumb-typing speed, lots of messages mean lots of repetitive thumb motions. And that could mean trouble, says Alan Hedge, PhD, director of the human factors and ergonomics research group at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Click here for the full article.

Don't Drink and Divorce

By Dan Morrison

Nazma Bibi's husband mistakenly divorced her in a drunken rage. Now his Muslim community in India won't let them get back together.

POLICE GUARDS WATCH OVER NAZMA BIBI'S HOME, a two-room thatch and mud hut, set on a tiny plot of land amid 150 other similar dwellings in Kantabania, a village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. She gets this treatment not because she is a VIP or a star witness in a celebrity trial, but because she is the nation's most famous reluctant divorcée.

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Avery Corman's "A Perfect Divorce" To Be Made Into A Movie

Avery Corman's latest novel, "A Perfect Divorce" has had its film rights picked up by Columbia Pictures! Irwin Winkler is set to produce according to Variety.

The book explores the hidden, corrosive effects of a seemingly amicable divorce on the son of well-meaning parents. Winkler is not expected to direct this feature. Further information is available in our forum.

Well, add it to the list of other Hollywood divorce films, i.e., War of the Roses, Intolerable Cruelty, Kramer v. Kramer, etc.