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...Alps, with the help of a robotic power suit named HAL (for Hybrid Assistive Limb, not to be confused with the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in 2001). Starting at 3,800 m, he hitched a ride up the mountain on the back of his friend, climber Takeshi Matsumoto, who wore the computerized exoskeleton built by Japanese tech firm Cyberdyne (not to be confused with the fictional Cyberdyne Systems, which created the killer robots of the Terminator movies). The suit mimics a user's motions by detecting the bioelectrical nerve signals that control muscles, and its servo-motors can nearly double...
...after arriving on a campus that struck me as a version of heaven on earth. The buildings cast elaborate, Gothic shadows that I had never seen in the Midwest, where I had attended public high school and dreamed of someday going east to glory. My fellow classmates wore natty outfits that put my dull provincial threads to shame. They also spoke more impressively than I did, dropping the names of ancient Greek philosophers and contemporary French deconstructionists. What was a deconstructionist, exactly? I wasn't sure. But I was dying to learn...
...surfie's blonde hair, which maybe has something to do with conforming to an image? "Not with me," she says. "I'm the biggest dag ever. When I was working next door, they let me wear the shop's clothes because what I wore normally wasn't good enough." She prefers walking to driving, sometimes hiking for two and a half hours over the hills into Kiama, then catching the train back. She's quick to laugh, but not a reveler. Her idea of a party is having a couple of friends over to her place and cooking for them...
...family and had thrown away everything for the cause made her a dashing character in my eyes. She was then and remains today head of Cuba's Women's Federation. People who knew Raśl at the time of the revolution speak of him as hotheaded and daredevilish. He wore his beret a bit sideways then; separate studio photographs of him and Fidel just after their victory show Fidel looking pensive, Raśl beaming with confidence. That was all lost on me in that first encounter. The younger Castro made almost no impression, and I remember wondering how he could...
...American car, and we wore civilian clothes. We had maps and guns in the car. As we reversed quickly, the Syrian soldiers fired at us, hitting the front window. The car skipped over onto an embankment. By then, we were shooting back using pistols and machine guns, and escaped on foot...