Word: leggedness
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It takes a while inside the Reeves' airy house an hour north of New York City before you notice signs that the place is home to a man who navigates his days in a sip-and-puff wheelchair. But those signs are there: the 31-in. spaces between obstacles; the...
With his two collaborators, Brooks spent the 1980s building experimental robots such as Genghis and Attila, six-legged insectoidal creatures with multiple onboard computers and dozens of sensors. These robots looked cool and cost a lot but on a practical level accomplished almost nothing. "You go into robotics thinking you...
"America be damned," says one of the men. "They have no respect for human rights." He pauses. "There is much I would like to say, but I cannot because we are Taliban and they want to arrest us." He agrees, however, to talk inside the shop. He wears brown from...
So on Nov. 10, Hilary and Ginny rose early to give themselves plenty of travel time and embarked on their first mother-daughter trip. They found the place with no problem. The counselors announced they would be splitting up the widows and children for the day. (There were no widowers...
"Mystic Funnies" starts out with the story of "The Hipman," another of Crumb's acid portrayals of a modern, frustrated, vulgar American. Sporting a mullet and a T-shirt that says "Empire Builder" on it, Hipman drives around in his one-man European car, worrying about how hip he is...