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...Will it never end?" ALEX TREBEK, host of TV's Jeopardy!, on bionic contestant Ken Jennings' record 38-show winning streak...
...BIONIC ENGINEER DRIVING SCHOOL ON MARS...
Television critics will tell you that The Bionic Woman was just another cheesy '70s sci-fi series, but for Ayanna Howard it was a springboard to a career. When she was 12 years old, she became so captivated by the show's cyborg premise that she started reading books that reaffirmed the concept of integrating machines with humans. A thousand reruns and an electrical-engineering Ph.D. later, she's creating robots that think like humans for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The Bionic Woman showed real, brilliant people giving life through bionics," says Howard, now 32. "I figured I could...
...have an X carved into his forehead and his right hand cut off. Saddam had the procedure filmed and the hands delivered to him. The men were even charged $50 apiece for the procedure. Seven of those men will be in Washington this week to shake hands--new bionic hands--with wounded American soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and to meet with President Bush...
...about me was round. I just felt like a snowman," says Dan Restione, 41, a Seattle radio producer whose makeover last summer took six weeks and could have cost him an estimated $80,000 if he'd had to pay for it. For that kind of money, Dan deserved bionic superpowers, but what he got--a slimmed-down torso, a more prominent chin, sculpted cheeks, a fuller hairline, and teeth as white as Aspen after a blizzard--made him feel like an "action hero," he says, and lifted him out of a multiyear depression that had followed a divorce...