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...pink or blue, it has upper-body sensors that allow it to "predict" its partner's next steps. Dancing is just one application. "By interpreting users' movements to estimate what they want, care robots will be able to provide better service for the elderly who may be too sick or handicapped to give verbal orders," says bioengineering and robotics professor Kazuhiro Kosuge, one of the creators. Next: Game Point...
...mean you should book a ticket to Bangkok the minute you start feeling chest pains. As the therapy is still experimental, only those classified by doctors as "no option"?meaning that conventional solutions such as angioplasty and bypass surgery have been exhausted?are eligible. "These patients are really sick," says TheraVitae spokesman Jay Lenner Jr. "We can give people a second chance." Those interested in the treatment, which costs about $30,000 (including most expenses in Bangkok) and requires a 12-day stay, can find out more at vescell.com. For some, it could be the trip of a lifetime...
...members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) appeared on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ doorstep asking for more than just candy. In addition to requests for an increase in wages to $20 an hour, the protestors asked for paternity/maternity leave of three to five days, for a sick leave of three to five days, that childcare benefits be extended to part-time employees, and that the University continue to work towards increasing the level of full-time custodial staff to 60 percent. While we are opposed to the $20 per hour increase in wages, we support these other...
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...year, the former action hero realized now is the time to be pragmatic. In his brief speech last night Schwarzenegger turned conciliatory, promising to "find common ground" with the Democratic opponents he had so recently been lambasting as special interests divorced from the people. Californians, concluded the governor, were "sick and tired of all the negative TV ads." Schwarzenegger should know-most of them were directed against...