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...finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed his lower left leg. Intensive rehab after the leg was amputated helped persuade Navy doctors to clear him for diving?although he had to prove he could climb with 136 kg on his back to simulate diving tanks. After Men of Honor premiered...
...finished only the seventh grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school--unofficially, it was for whites only--where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed his lower left leg. Intensive rehab after the leg was amputated helped persuade Navy doctors to clear him for diving--although he had to prove he could climb with 300 lbs. on his back to simulate diving tanks. After Men of Honor premiered...
...water red. On the deck of one boat, Sevilla, clearly delighted, whips out his mobile phone and calls in the day's estimated catch to his managers in Barbate, so that they can negotiate with Japanese buyers waiting in the harbor. The fishermen whoop in delight as cranes hoist their catch onto the boats. "This is our best day this year," says one, adding: "You brought us luck." Some version of that scene has been going on for thousands of years in and around the Mediterranean Sea. Fishermen on Spain's 4,000-km Mediterranean coast have hunted tuna since...
Forty years earlier, the group, heavily comprised of Harvard graduates, arrived in Alabama to report stories that the local and national press wouldn’t touch. These children of the 60s didn’t hoist signs or register voters. They told stories, mostly about people who had never been interviewed, let alone asked to have their picture taken for the paper...
Meet the latest in Japanese robotica: a droid that cares ... for old people. A team of scientists at Riken's biomimetic-control research center in Nagoya has developed RI-MAN (for Robot Interacting with Human) to look after the elderly. Standing 5-ft. 2-in. tall, the robot can hoist 77 lbs; its 320 pressure sensors and 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...