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...elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight - and the wearer's - with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain to the muscle generates a detectable electrical...
...real-life Pitt has done right by Shapiro. The actor's production company has optioned Shapiro's novel The Every Boy and signed Shapiro to write and direct the movie version. "My goal was to make a great documentary, not to get a job in Hollywood," Shapiro insists. "But it's not a bad by-product...
...become fashionable to take a menial job--nanny, say, or assistant to Anna Wintour--and then snitch about it in a thinly veiled novel. Anyone have a problem with that? Pine used to do publicity for Miramax, and she puts the grade-A material she gathered there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark...
...adult concerns. As with any question of art, no definitive answer will ever be reached, but some fresh thoughts came to mind on the subject thanks to a new series by Paul Chadwick, Concrete: The Human Dilemma, and a recent panel I attended on the future of the graphic novel. Among the questions I found myself thinking about was this: Where does Superman stand on abortion? It seemed central to the debate...
Beyond journalism, Beecher has had a varied career. In 1990 he penned “Mayday Man,” a novel about espionage and foreign intrigue, and has seen the media from the other side of the lens while working in government. He served as the Defense Department’s acting assistant secretary for public affairs, and he served for 10 years as director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Public Affairs...