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Research into voice-recognition machines is particularly active in Japan. Nissan Motor Co. last October unveiled its model of a car for the handicapped that uses voice recognition to adjust the driver's seat and outside rear-view mirror, as well as to turn on the windshield wipers, lights and radio. A group of scientists at Tokyo University has developed a machine that allows an immobilized patient to change the position of his bed and order food and drink from a robot nurse...
Fullerton began guiding the remote-controlled arm, essential for retrieving satellites in the future, through various maneuvers, extending it and flexing its joints, only to discover that a TV camera on its "wrist" had failed. Another camera at the rear of the cargo bay succumbed as well. Even so, the remaining camera at the arm's "elbow" was providing clear pictures, including shots of the nose showing where tiles had been damaged or lost. While reviewing films of the launch, technicians discovered that still other tiles had fallen off the top surface of the shuttle's big body...
...England Honorary General Orhan Ganduz, who owns the Central Square Store that was damaged last night, and who maintains an office in the rear of the building, refused comment through a spokesman...
...Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...
...Smoke trails in long plumes from a dozen places on the mountainside. We come in over a cluster of bombed-out buildings, low enough to see through the gaps in the crushed orange tile roofs. The first cracks of ground fire come up at us, and the door gunners rear from their seats in their harnesses on either side of the chopper and shoot back. The ship reverberates with the sound of alternating bursts of fire, left and right...