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...Let’s backtrack. There are some things you need to know before we can continue. The word “cyborg,” a popular abbreviation on the sci-fi circuit, is the shorter and catchier version of the term “cybernetic organism.” Essentially, we’re talking about a being that has both organic parts and robot parts. These parts are integrated and form a functioning system. Typically, this means using robotic elements to extend existing human capabilities. Seems pretty straightforward: RoboCop is a cyborg, for example...
...According to Marco Canseco, a reporter for the sports paper Marca, fans of Spanish driver Fernando Alonso booed his archrival (and former McLaren teammate) "fanatically" every time he moved between his mobile home and the pit at the Circuit de Catalunya testing session. Those seated over the British driver's quarters, included some men wearing painted faces, Afro wigs, and t-shirts bearing the word's "Hamilton's Family," went even further, loudly calling Hamilton a "negro de mierda" (or "black shit") and other offensive names...
...seem to have that spark. Today just wasn’t their day.” In the saber, senior Alexa Weingarden outfenced the pack, going 9-0 and finishing tied for first with Columbia saberist Emily Jacobson, who fenced for the US Olympic team in the senior circuit. Next weekend Harvard faces the toughest half of its Ancient Eight competition, with last year’s men’s and women’s champions in the form of the Lions on deck. “Essentially what we have to do next week to have any hope...
...shut down at 4 p.m. Friday, after a critical IT system “failed catastrophically.” But services were fully restored Saturday, according to an e-mail announcement from Larry M. Levine, the FAS Associate Dean for Information Technology (IT). “A short circuit generated extreme heat and smoke in this system, triggering alarms in the data center,” Levine wrote. “After power was shut down work began immediately to shift all services in the room to the second [power supply] system, completely physically bypassing the failed [system...
...campaigns past Los Angeles was a little more than an ATM stopover on the fund-raising circuit. But this year Obama is asking stars who support him to not only speak on his behalf, but to stuff mailers, make calls, knock on doors, install yard signs and act as precinct captains - pledging to lead hundreds of their friends and neighbors to the polls...