Aguilera, boyfriend arrested
Pop superstar Christina Aguilera was arrested for drunkenness in West Hollywood on Tuesday morning, according to a report. The Dirrty singer and her new boyfriend, Matthew Rutler, were both taken into custody by Los Angeles cops, reports TMZ.com.[...]
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Man charged with blowing over after vehicle goes through red light early Wednesday
A 19-year-old Greater Sudbury man is facing a blowing over charge after a car being driven on Notre Dame Avenue early Wednesday failed to stop for a red light. Greater Sudbury Police say officers on patrol about 2:20 a.m.[...]
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More MDs needed for better health care
Re: Help ‘frees up’ docs — Feb. 28. I read with interest the article, which provides an excellent illustration of the positive impact physician assistants (PAs) are having on patient care at Sudbury Regional Hospital.[...]
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The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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