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...soft silicone skin allow the robot to safely carry a human body. RI-MAN can also pinpoint where sound is coming from and "smell" eight scents--including urine, which signals "diaper change." But RI-MAN needs a brainpower boost before it's ready for consumers. It can't distinguish faces yet, for example. Scientists say they'll smarten it up soon, but will they give this tin man a heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man's New Best Friend? | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...real challenge for Dershowitz’s text is to distinguish itself from his more than 20 other intellectual treatises and publications...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Preempt, Or Not To Preempt? | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...concede that Hamas militants have stuck to their yearlong cease-fire, but since the election Fatah has intensified its attacks on Israeli targets. Fatah appears to be aiming to bring Israeli wrath on Hamas, hence hastening the downfall of Haniya's government. So far, Israel has been careful to distinguish who is shooting before it fires back. Since the election, no Hamas targets have been attacked, but last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble All Around | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...said.Freeman added that faculty seemed most concerned about specificity in grading. “The arguments all hinge on the ‘B+’ grade,” he said. “The faculty want to be able to distinguish the student with an 89 from other ‘B’ students.”But grade inflation is not a problem unique to Brown. In a letter sent to faculty in January this year, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 acknowledged grade inflation as a problem...

Author: By Kathleen Pond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Considers Modifying Grading | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...woman having appendicitis is low, doctors need a way to test for the condition, Pedrosa said. “The problem is that abdominal pain is very common during pregnancy for other reasons” Pedrosa said. “The challenge for us is to be able to distinguish those situations where abdominal pain may be related to more trivial conditions...from those situations where surgical treatment is needed like acute appendicitis.” Though Pedrosa said the ultrasound remains the first tool used in diagnosis because it is fast and harmless to the fetus, when the ultrasound...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: MRI Finds Prenatal Woes | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

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