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...Washington in 1999. "I kept thinking, This needs to be out there, and I can't believe it's not," says Lathan. "When I started working with kids, it was mind-boggling to me, the lack of technology available to them." CosmoBot can help a child by testing motor and verbal skills. The robot plays games like Simon Says and mimics a child's movements. For example, when the child pushes a button on the robot's central-command, or mission-control, box, the robot moves in that direction. The robot also comes with a video game in which...
...optimism seems rewarded four hours later, when the young Egyptian piloting the green-and-white fishing boat spots the lights of Malta, steers left, and announces that the Italian coast is just 10 hours away. But there's still no land in sight the following afternoon when the motor stutters and dies. The boatman tries a few times to restart it and a few of the men fiddle with the thing, but it's no use. Women scream that they are doomed. A young Somali named Ismail prays to Allah for their survival. By the next night, Abdi Salan...
...coughs back to life. The frightening ritual bath is repeated over the next few days. But when the truck rolls to a stop on the seventh day, something more serious is wrong. This time, the bath doesn't work. The drivers are nervous as they try to get the motor turning again. No luck. Getting stuck out here means almost certain death. The drivers try to calm the passengers by telling them, "We're in the same situation as you." Finally, after three hours, the motor kicks over and the truck starts rolling north again. Roughly three days later they...
...partner from the Gucci Group [Nov. 17]. But if Ford is looking for new challenges, the makers of America's big, dark, ugly, gas-guzzling luxury sport-utility vehicles might offer him just the one. Tom Ford would be the perfect choice to redesign the suv line for Ford Motor Co. Carole Wade Los Angeles...
...17—Officers were sent to assist Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers with a report of a theft in progress to a motor vehicle at Gutman Library. A search of the area turned up negative...