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A rocket-powered bionic arm: Engineers at Vanderbilt University have built a prosthetic arm powered by a kind of rocket motor. It's three times as strong as most other prostheses on the market.; By Farhad Manjoo Aug 21, 2007
Shark and awe: The Pentagon plans to put neural implants in sharks to have them serve as underwater spies -- another example of a defense budget gone mad.; By Tom Engelhardt Mar 10, 2006
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code: How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to Linux.; By Andrew Leonard May 16, 2000

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