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...artillery shell. That experience took him to places where no one could help him. The surgeons could do only so much. His mother, who would have done anything for him, couldn't do anything when she came upon him hanging from the rafters of their garage by his shattered arm, trying to make it work again...
RODNEY BROOKS GUSHES LIKE A first-time parent about the things his baby can do. "It sits there waving its arm around, watching its arm, reaching for things," he says. These are pretty standard tricks for newborn humans, of course, but then Brooks' "baby" (nicknamed Cog) isn't exactly human. It's a vaguely person-shaped concoction of metal, plastic and silicon, with cameras where its eyes should be and eight 32-bit microprocessors for a brain. Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world the way babies do, programming and reprogramming itself through...
...once it was clear that the twins were healthy and the family could fall into a normal routine of bathing, feeding and cuddling, "we knew it would be fine," recalls Patty. And so it has been. Aside from an operation at four months to remove a third arm that projected awkwardly between their heads, the girls have not needed surgery. They have been hospitalized briefly three times: twice for pneumonia in Britty's lung and once for a kidney infection...
...same is true for the Confederate flag, for it represents the courage and sacrifice of men who fought and died to protect their home, their family, their state and the belief in honor. My great-great-grandfather lost his arm fighting under that flag, not to protect slavery for he was too poor to even consider owning a slave, but to protect what he understood to be the rights extended to his state by the Constitution...
None other than Castro himself thinks the Marlins got the better arm. But Hernandez may be too young for the majors this season, even though he had two scoreless innings in his spring-training debut last Wednesday. The more experienced Fernandez has already been penciled into the Giants' rotation. Their weekly meal money alone--$563--is almost 10 times what they made in a year in Cuba. "Maybe one day they will come back to Cuba and bring their money with them," Castro told TIME last week...