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...seminar on Oct. 8 will be led by Rizzi, who has worked extensively on the control of robotic movements. It will focus on a discussion about BigDog, a quadruped robot with advanced motor skills that can “walk, run, climb, carry loads, resist kicks, and negotiate rough terrain,” Reid said. “[Rizzi’s] a really famous person in this area, and so I think a lot of people are excited to hear him speak,” Welsh said. The second seminar will be held on Nov. 20, but additional information...
...After the establishment of the state of Israel and the ensuing Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, the Golan Heights once again became the site of tumultuous border clashes. Syria took advantage of the area's mountainous terrain and high vantage points to shell the Israeli border below while Israel attempted to occupy and control the demilitarized areas and divert the Golan Heights' freshwater supply from the Jordan River for its own uses...
Epidemiologists are often described by the media as "disease detectives," who use statistical tools - carrying out the occasional survey, for example, or, in the case of malaria, using temperature and terrain maps to help predict where disease-carrying mosquitoes may live - to hunt down and eliminate global killers. The comparison is useful for another reason: Disease trackers, like crime solvers, often spend a lot of time sifting through a few, imperfect clues - hunches, really - to piece together a fuller picture. But that picture often ends up being indistinct as well. The WHO says, for example, that the "confidence interval...
...nursing care rendered but in vain. May her soul rest in peace." Six weeks later, I find the woman's father sitting outside the tiny family home atop an escarpment that overlooks Freetown. Holding the newborn baby, he says his daughter gave birth at home because "the terrain is too rough to reach the hospital." By the time he carried her, half conscious, down the slope to the hospital, she was too sick to be saved. Even for women who give birth in a hospital, survival is no sure thing. Another woman, 20, was admitted in late July in early...
...Sana'a in 2006. Still, U.S. officials acknowledge that the government faces a formidable challenge. The country is home to a large number of veterans of the anti-Soviet jihads in Afghanistan and the Iraq insurgency; local militants have links to powerful Yemeni tribes; the country's rugged terrain provides safe havens; and Yemen's gun-crazy population of 23 million is estimated to own anywhere between 6 million and 60 million firearms. Yemen also has a history of tolerating radical theology; an Islamic school in Sana'a once provided teaching to John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban...