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...down motion that makes a bundle seem to weigh more on every downward bounce. Spence suggests that the same concept could be applied to improve the performance of artificial legs. "It's not crazy to say you'd be able to use this to build better prosthetic limbs for people. If you're trying to build a prosthetic limb to handle a bumpy environment, this should help," he says...
...make certain cuts in education, in higher education, in all these various different programs, in prisons, law enforcement and so on." But Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a nonprofit advocacy group, says, "These are no longer cuts. These are amputations, and the question is, Which limb are we cutting off today...
Ultimately, however, in a world as truly interconnected as ours, we can no more cloister a single country than we could cut off a limb. The world has become increasingly one - as the rapid spread of the swine flu virus from country to country shows. "It is really all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic," says the WHO's Chan. Whatever happens next with the swine flu - whether it burns out or sharpens - we're in this together...
...have here a limb, not the brain, of this terrorist organization.' RAKESH MARIA, an Indian detective, on the limited value of testimony from Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks. Kasab's lawyer was sacked April 15, delaying the high-profile trial...
...fearing they might be targeted for violence or taken hostage, ordered them flown out in two batches to the Dominican Republic. Their departure is having ''a terrible demoralizing effect on the people, who feel abandoned,'' said one. A Haitian intellectual charged that ''the U.S. led us out on a limb and left us there to be eaten up slowly by these tigers.'' His comment indicates the stakes for the U.S. in this showdown. Haiti is important in itself. It and neighboring Caribbean states form a sort of unofficial U.S. border, and any increase in poverty and oppression triggers a flood...