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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Akhtar is the CEO.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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“I was delighted that the society acknowledged my contributions, which went beyond science and technology, and to have these visionaries confirm that I wasn’t crazy or paranoid to want a radical change in the way both the architecture and the business model of the Internet will work in the future, with social sustainability at the forefront.”

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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, had also forecast that “ climate change will challenge the traditional assumption that past hydrological experience provides a good guide to future conditions. ”. supply chain), and developed contingency plans for potential future risks such as those associated with climate change?

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