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Powered by a modified 900-cc Kawasaki motorcyle engine, the Hexapod walks with the aid of 16 on-board computers. The data processors get their information from sensors and use it to guide the vehicle forward, backward or to the side. Scientists at Ohio State, who have spent $5 million so far developing the Hexapod, will put the machine through its first walking test this fall...
...industrial capital of Hebei province, isn't recognized by the Chinese government: he's one of the country's underground priests. And yet he goes about his business with a remarkable lack of stealth. Four days after the death of Pope John Paul II, Father Benedictus removed his 125 cc Honda motorcycle from the courtyard that doubles as his church. In full view of the neighbors?and, he assumes, plainclothes police?some 400 worshippers paraded down a quiet lane to the courtyard bearing candles and a memorial photograph of the deceased pontiff. During mass, they wept, prayed and lined...
...wobbly in the past two years, the German Formula 1 race driver has the opposite problem: he can't stop winning. Schumacher, 35, has been world champion six times, more than any other driver, and is on his way to his seventh title. In his 10-cylinder, 2,997-cc, 853-horsepower, carbon-fiber red Ferrari, Schumacher gets as close to perfection as is humanly possible at 220 m.p.h. The sport's organizers want to slow him down...
HIAP received much media coverage, including articles in Beijing News, the Beijing Times, sina.com and CC-TV, China’s national television program, which held a special TV series interviewing the guests...
...framed a simple letter to Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, which he CC'ed to the Ministry of Health and the China CDC. "With winter coming, the wildlife markets have reopened, providing the perfect conditions for another outbreak of SARS," he wrote. He went on to list his findings that the civet is the major carrier of the SARS coronavirus, that the SARS coronavirus exists in different animals from different regions, that this virus can infect humans and, most frightening, that the "transmitting mechanism for the resurgence of SARS is in place." He enclosed four pages...