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Japanese Wheelchair Steered Using Brain Waves

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in …

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Maine Town Fights Demise of Curb-Side Public Mailbox

OTISFIELD, Maine – The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night. Town officials also threatened to chain themselves to the blue box …

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Lawsuit Claims McDonald's Coffee Caused Boy's Second-Degree Burns

UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A western Pennsylvania woman is suing McDonald’s saying her 11-year-old grandson was scalded by hot coffee in a cup served with a loose lid in a drive-through lane. Cheryl Cornair of Washington Township, Fayette County, says the boy was burned May 24 at the McDonald’s on Route …

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