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Two Cuban-Americans are claiming heir civil rights were violated because they were not permitted to buy tickets on a May1 cruise from Miami to Cuba aboard Fathom cruise line. he company said ithas lodged a request with the Cuban government to hange the ship policy. Washington: Russian aircraft buzz US destro yer Russian attack planes buzzed the uided missile destroyer USS Donald ook during joint exercises Tuesday with Poland and other NATO allies in the Baltic Sea, a Defense Department cial said Wednesday. wo Russian attack aircraft made sev- ral low-altitude passes at the ship. Nation World Watch From Gannett and wire reports ling his hand.

hen Burkhart thinks about omething like making a he electrodes pick up the changes in his brain cells and send signals through a cable protruding from his skull to a omputer and other gear. The achines process the data be- ore handing it to a cu wrapped around forearm. The cu electrodes signal muscles. urkhart still has some use his biceps and shoulder, all owing him to drive his wheel- chair on his own and making it easier to perform some of the tasks he learned in the lab. He can pour the contents of a bottle into a jar, hold a phone to his ar and play a guitar-simulation video game.

Scientists who take part in the research were lukewarm about the new system. The research team a said Robert Kirsch of the Department of Veterans A airs. just going to translate to a lot of He thinks people with paralysis will shy away from brain surgery, and he said the system his own team developed years ago also re- tores hand function without a rain implant. he movements achieved by the new system are said the University of Andrew Schwartz. looks cool, but a lot ore work to be he team behind the Nature aper said the technology ers more movements than other technologies, as well as the ability to put movements ogether to perform everyday asks.

urkhart needs no convincing. The abilities regained in the lab would help him feed himself and brush his own eeth, so I could take it home a nd use it, I would do it in a he said. not see the advance as a ma- or breakthrough, and the authors say hard to redict when the technology will be ready for market. Certainly some parts of the prototype system very ser-friendly. To prepare Burkh art for the research, surgeons i mplanted nearly 100 electrodes in a region of his brain that would ordinarily command his right hand and ngers.

It ook immense and urkhart said, for him to learn he thought pattern for control- An Ohio man with quadriplegia has used his hands to pick up a bottle, swipe a credit card and play a video game with the help of technology that routes signals from his brain to his muscles, researchers reported in a study Wednesday. Other paralyzed people have used their brain signals to comm and computers and robotic a rms. But this the rst ime a person living with paralysis has regained movement by using signals recorded from within the study co-author Chad Bouton of the Feins tein Institute of Medical esearch told reporters Tues- ay. The study appears in this Nature. time when I was able to open and close my hand, i really gave me that sense of ope said Ian Burkhart, 2 4, who broke his neck diving into the ocean six years ago.

when I can use this system outside the clinical setting, i will really increase my quality ther researchers, though, Quadriplegic man moves hand using brain implants Some researchers caution technology is Traci Watson Special for USA TODAY CLARK STATE UNIVERSITY VIA AP Ian Burkhart plays a guitar video game as part of a study with neural bypass technology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. You might have thrown away your shot to get a copy of The Amazon is already out of stock on what fans call Hamil- a book co-written by creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter that chronicles the making of the musical. LIFE BAD DAY FOR FANS PAUL KOPPLE, MAX VANDENBERG MONEY AmericasMarkets.usatoday.com INDEXCLOSECHG Dow Jones Industrial Avg.17908 187.03 Nasdaq composite4947.42 75.33 500 2 082.42 2 0.70 note, 10-year yield1.76% 0.01 Oil, light sweet crude 41.76 0 .41 uro (dollars per 0.0114 Yen per dollar109.24 0.71 SOURCES USA TODAYRESEARCH, MARKETWATCH.COM WEDNESDAY MARKETS neralHome 2016atHillsideManorin BeaverDam. JudywasbornonMarch daughterofJohnandLe- ona(Buchholz)Polcynand graduatedfromPrinceton HighSchool.OnMay17, marriagetoRobertCoda atSt.JohntheBaptist CatholicChurchinPrince- ton.JudyworkedatNancy NotionsinBeaverDamfor 22yearsandwasamem- berofSt.KatharineDrexel ParishinBeaverDam. JudywasanavidWis- consinsportsfananden- joyedwatchingthePack- Kenseth.Shealsoloved supportinghergrandchil- drenduringtheiractivities andsportingevents.Her freetimewasspentbowl- inginherearlieryears, gardeninganddrivingher 1967Mustangconvertible.

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