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...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
...electronics. Another drawback is that the Freehand system provides no tactile feedback for things like temperature, so users also have to be careful when handling hot objects such as cigarettes or coffee. To get around this problem, Thomas Sinkjaer and colleagues at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Denmark's Aalborg University are developing neural prosthetics that can actually feel the texture of objects and transmit this information back to the user...
...presented to Parliament by March 1, would limit the grounds for getting asylum, increase from three years to seven the waiting period for permanent residency and cut welfare payments by 30%-50% depending on family size. Another proposal would change marriage laws to require a person living in Denmark to have an apartment and $5,800 in the bank before marrying a foreigner, effectively barring marriage to the unemployed. If the couple divorce during the seven-year waiting period, the foreign spouse would be sent home...
...measures are supported by 60% of Danish voters, according to opinion polls. But there is also significant opposition - recently some 2,000 people demonstrated in Copenhagen to express outrage at the new laws. "The basic idea is they want to keep ethnic minorities out of Denmark," says Pakistan-born Bashy Quraishy, president of the European Network Against Racism, who has lived in Denmark for 32 years. "They are saying, 'We want Denmark to be white and Christian.' But they have to understand that Denmark has changed. It's a multicultural society now." Seven out of 10 foreigners are Muslims, including...
Because of the disparity with other European states on the rate of asylum acceptance, the government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says it hopes the European Union will adopt a common asylum policy for all member states. That would make it easier for Denmark to legally block more refugees from ending up in the country. The government hopes asylum seekers like Adirazak Mohamud will take their dreams somewhere else...