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Look into the crystal ball


Posted at 12:01 am by Katie Mayer, Herald Staff

A lawmaker in Norway says she won't run for re-election after piling up thousands of dollars in phone calls to fortune-tellers on Parliament's tab. The problem for the lawmaker isn't that her soothsaying advisers didn't see the scandal coming -- it's that they knew she'd stop calling if they warned her about it.

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2008: A Space Suit Odyssey. Scientists in Japan have invented a robotic suit called HAL, which helps people with disabilities walk by reading their brain signals. That is, HAL helps people as long as he doesn't become concerned they might disconnect him.
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