Word: asimov
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...supposed to be the enemy of quality. Slow writers find themselves hailed as painstaking artists; prolific ones are dismissed as hacks, particularly if they work within the confines of the thriller, the sci-fi adventure, the western or the like. There are very few exceptions: Georges Simenon and Isaac Asimov have each written more than 300 well-received volumes, and William F. Buckley Jr. gets good reviews for spy novels that he claims to churn out in as few as 150 hours per caper...
...Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight-and the wearer's-with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain...
...Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight - and the wearer's - with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain...
CDIED. FRANK KELLY FREAS, 82, artist whose career included designing posters for NASA, illustrating Isaac Asimov's science-fiction books and creating the definitive portraits of Mad magazine's grinning mascot, Alfred E. Newman, originally drawn by Norman Mingo; in West Hills, Calif...
...ROBOT Robots try to restrict freedom to protect humanity in this futuristic thriller based on Isaac Asimov's stories. Audiences can watch it as an escapist Will Smith summer flick--or an allegory about the USA Patriot...