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...JENNINGS, Jeopardy! champion who won a record 74 consecutive games in 2004, last week correcting an earlier, much criticized blog entry in which he called Alex Trebek, the game show's longtime host, a robot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Aug. 7, 2006 | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

Wilson will help operate the shuttle’s robot arm, which includes a special extension equipped with new cameras and laser scanners to assess the vehicle’s health. As the load master, Wilson will maneuver the mechanical appendage to deploy and retrieve cargo packages from to and from the space station...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduate To Launch On NASA Shuttle | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view at CHS. There?s gorilla sitting at one classroom desk, and a prancing tough guy called the Queen (Freddie Mercury with Toshiro Mifune?s menace), and a cigarette-puffing robot in a pink shirt. The entire group sends up fumes like an Iraqi oil factory, and when Kamiyama presses them to renounce smoking, they protest: "Our lips would be lonely? And our fingers too." You?ll find no girls in Cromartie, but plenty of aliens. In a way, the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Eastern Standard | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

...CROUCH The robot is back, thanks to England striker Peter Crouch's goofy moves, which have spawned an army of imitators in the stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Kick! | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...governor, deciding to buy a slave on the mainland and bring him back to do her chores. You can't fault Grady for a lack of daring. But the book's bizarre conflation of the horror of human slavery mixed with childish whimsy, including magical candy, a giant robot and little rock creatures, leaves the tone of the book a hopeless confusion. Produced entirely by digital means, The Lost Colony may be most notable as one of the few such books that actually makes you wonder if it wasn't hand-done. Klein has a special vision that seems worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Your Mark! | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

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