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Robot Defined

Robot comes from the Czech word "robot," which means "worker." In 1923, Karl Capek, a well-known, Czech, science-fiction writer at the time, wrote a futuristic thriller about a nightmarish scenario in which the machines have taken over (a la, the "Terminator") and implanted circuitry in humans to make them into mindless zombies willing to serve them as workers or "robots."

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Behind each of those cloying toy voices, a person

Published July 4, 2009, 1:53 pm, The Oregonian

The voice of the Wii Fit female trainer lives right here in Portland.

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Behind each of those cloying toy voices, a person

Published July 4, 2009, 4:08 am, The Oregonian

Eric Baker/The Oregonian The voice of the Wii Fit female trainer lives right here in Portland, and as you might expect, she's in pretty good shape. She looks like she could throw down at any minute. Whether that bit...

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'Knowing,' 'Kath & Kim,' 'Lonely are the Brave': DVD releases for July 7

Published July 4, 2009, 3:13 am, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Knowing Nicolas Cage Summit Entertainment An MIT professor (Cage) pieces together clues from a mysterious string of numbers and realizes something really bad will happen soon. His conclusions sound crazy, but at least he admits it, which helps the film's...

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'TROF' meets expectation of lots of action and that's it

Published July 3, 2009, 6:02 pm, Lancaster Online

REVIEW: Movie"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is completely honest and unapologetic about its two primary purposes: being the quintessential summer blockbuster, and selling toys. This frankness is pretty much what makes the movie so enjoyable.The Transformers franchise is unique in that most ma...

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Today: H 21 /L 11

Published July 3, 2009, 12:33 pm, Guelph Mercury

A pair of Guelph residents are active breeding, training and hunting champion coon dogs. The Mercury honors those under 40 making a contribution to the city.

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Gnabagangal: A tedious yawn fest

Published July 3, 2009, 5:58 am, rediff.com

Vil Makers' Tamil movie starring lyricist Pa Vijay, turns out to be a tedious, sentimental yawn-fest.

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Gurren Lagann Part 3 (also w/Limited Edition)

Published July 3, 2009, 12:55 am, Mania

Gurren Lagann finishes strong but with a bittersweet ending for our favorite driller. What They Say Seven years have passed since the final battle against Lordgenome and the Beastmen. Mankind is now thriving on the surface of the planet. Lordgenome's fallen capital has now become humanity's new capital, Kamina City...

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Andy Bockelman: "˜Transformers"™: Less than meets the eye

Published July 2, 2009, 11:10 pm, Craig Daily Press

What do you do when you have a hit movie? Make it again. Originality shifts out of sight as the sequel, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,†brings about the same old story, fresh off the line.

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Bizarro blockbusters

Published July 2, 2009, 11:18 am, Chicago Tribune

Asylum crafts an alternative world of summer releases You've heard that Hollywood is a parallel universe? Virtually another world -- vaguely familiar yet removed from our own, governed by its own rules and morality? But did you know that within that universe exists another parallel universe -- a bizarro Hollywood, modeled on the larger Hollywood owned by Sony, Universal and DreamWorks? It is ...

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Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms

Published July 2, 2009, 8:03 am, PhysOrg

Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise.

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