Word: armorer
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...help us understand the real one." DB doesn't have the friendly exterior of its cute entertainment-robot cousins. Its face is composed of just "eyes," made of two telescopic, wide-angle lenses, and its body is a bundle of metal and cables, thinly veiled by a translucent armor. But what makes DB special is its ability to learn new skills by mimesis, or mimicry. To understand how the human brain integrates sensory information and motor control, Kawato gave DB a dexterous body with functioning eyes, neck, torso, arms and legs. DB can watch a dance demonstration, memorize the movement...
...evolved over the course of his two terms as the ground began shifting beneath him. After a decade of Presidents carefully talking detente, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and accused its leaders of claiming "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." To armor such rhetoric, Reagan demanded and got a huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign policy--like the deaths...
...free for a year's work. Most were desperate to pay bills, to fix up houses, to send kids to college. For some, it was a patriotic duty. But in Iraq, wearing just a Kevlar jacket and helmet for safety, they found themselves in trucks with no armor, ferrying fuel to U.S. troops. They wielded hammers and cans of ravioli to defend themselves. And they came home with nightmares...
...country where foreign businessmen are reluctant to travel even in armor-clad SUVs with security guards, Nick Berg crisscrossed Iraq by hailing cabs and hopping onto buses. Usually clad in a baseball cap and jeans, he made no effort to blend in with the locals as he lugged around sophisticated electronic equipment in search of work. His Arabic was awful, and he had a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In January, during his first prospecting trip to Iraq, Berg was picked up during a police sweep in the southern town of Diwaniya, where "there...
...Oregon may not be married forever. Judge Bearden's ruling that the state must recognize the marriages is being contested, and everyone is waiting for the higher courts. But Roey Thorpe got what she wanted: the pro-gay side goes into that case with the p.r. armor of 6,044 happy newlyweds. Those who oppose same-sex marriage must now argue against rights already granted. "I give them credit for achieving that beachhead," says the G.O.P.'s Mannix. "But will that short-term objective be worth weakening their long-term objectives...