And then I ask an even more stupid question Why don't you have the prostheses?

Durrat Al Bahrain is the largest artificial island in Bahrain after the Amwaj Islands.

In 2010, the biologist Craig Venter created the first fully synthetic and self replicating cell.

There will soon be thousands of laboratories around the world capable of producing designer bugs with awesome lethal potential.

The Panel considers that the costs claimed for providing replacement prosthetic devices to 36 Kuwaiti amputees are reasonable.

These linkages, in the context of a comprehensive and balanced programme of work, are not artificial, contrived or extraneous. They are anchored in history and substance.

This is as true as astronomical facts get, particularly because we have sent artificial satellites into orbit and seen that our planet is indeed roundish.

Nanotechnology and innovation in developing artificial organisms offer a huge potential boon to mankind, promising development of new materials, medicines, and treatment techniques.

Genetic engineering rests on the manipulation of DNA molecules (whether real or artificially constructed) in order to reprogram foreign cells.

Some kinds of trust can be based on an artificial notion of not us rather than on real values and direct experience.

Ironically, in both Europe and North America, the designation organic is itself a synthetic bureaucratic construct and it makes little sense.

In another hybrid discipline, molecular computing, organic or artificial enzymes are programmed to conduct complex calculations faster than silicon chips.

In 2001, an artificial saltwater pool known as Piscinão de Ramos ( Ramos' Big Pool ) was built amidst favelas in Rio's North Zone, generating much controversy.

The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.

In an international context, the revolution took place because the state boundaries established by France were artificial and the hostility within the newly established Syria to the creation of Israel.

This differentiates it from experimental research in which a quasi artificial environment is created to control for spurious factors, and where at least one of the variables is manipulated as part of the experiment.

Its workforce labors round the clock and its inventiveness, energy, and diversity counter provincialism with scorn. Like America itself, although so utterly different, New York can only be comprehended synthetically.

The Chinese search for a replacement of the US dollar by a synthetic reserve currency is driven by a political backlash against the perceived iniquities of US financial and economic preeminence.

For example, they may be synthetic organochlorides such as plastics and pesticides, or naturally occurring organic chemicals such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and some fractions of crude oil and coal.

The result has been to expose Western economies to ever more experimental measures, with considerable uncertainty about the longer term impact of operating sophisticated market based systems on the basis of artificial constructs.

Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

In some fatality cases, the body of the asphyxiophilic individual is discovered naked or with genitalia in hand, with pornographic material or sex toys present, or with evidence of having orgasmed prior to death.

Protected by a security wall on one side and the sea on the other, Israeli citizens may enjoy the feeling of living on an artificial island from which they can connect directly to the areas of modernity and prosperity in Asia and the West.

This is over and above the many thousands in the Hunza region, who in January lost everything on account of a cloudburst that wiped out several villages and created a highly unstable artificial lake.

At the MIT Media Lab, double amputee Hugh Herr has pioneered biomechatronics, which combines biology, mechanical engineering, and electronics to invent efficient, lifelike prosthetics.

Desperate for a solution, we've turned to engineering to design artificial components to replace our worn out body parts, but in the midst of the modern buzz around the promises of a bionic body, shouldn't we stop and ask if there's a better, more natural way?

He says that two thirds of China s almost 3,000 counties have tried artificial methods to induce more rainfall, sometimes resulting in lawsuits over rights to mine passing clouds for water.

Improved aquaculture, in which fish are grown at manmade fishponds and reservoirs is still far from being a perfect technology, mainly for environmental reasons, yet it is enormously promising.

The robots featured in Rossum's Universal Robots (the play that originally coined the term robot) are presented as synthetic biological entities closer to biological organisms than the mechanical objects that the term robot came to refer to.

The developing world's attempts to promote cooperation in that sphere in order to create an international climate conducive to global democracy, peace and security came up against artificial means of control which were flooding the world with distorted information in the service of unilateral political and economic interests.

In order to address the tasks of environmental monitoring to the fullest possible extent, it is planned to develop space facilities gradually within the framework of a prospective remote sensing system, which will initially include artificial Earth satellites of the Meteor M, Elektro L, Resurs DK and Monitor E types.

Both announcements also came a month ahead of an Italian referendum the largest popular consultation on the matter ever held anywhere that seeks to change a law adopted last year that prohibits both in vitro fertilization and stem cell research.

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