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• How good is Rasmus, really?
  Sep 7, 2010 — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  He is flawed but he is also improving. Some have compared Rasmus' upside to that of Steve Finley, a fine center fielder for a very long time. Well, in his second big league season Finley hit .256 with 3 HR and .632 OPS. Rasmus has the potential to be as good as all the players on that list except Junior.
• Germantown man pleads guilty to Medicare fraud
  Sep 4, 2010 — The Commercial Appeal
  Germantown man ran his diabetics shoe-insert business was a good fit for Medicare. Michael E. Cohen acknowledged as much this week and pleaded guilty to government allegations that since 2006 he improperly collected Medicare and Medicaid payments totaling nearly $650,000. Cohen, 61, ran a company in Cordova called NewGen Advance Orthotics Laboratory that sold the special inserts to diabetics in Tennessee, Texas and Florida, but used unlicensed private citizens to fit and measure...
• Porterville Rotary distributes prosthetic hands in Ecuador
  Aug 30, 2010 — The Porterville Recorder
  There was also a woman clerk who was initially reluctant, but walked away with a new hand.
• Johns Hopkins lab in North Laurel revolutionizing prosthetic limbs
  Aug 26, 2010 — Laurel Leader
  That, in itself, is very challenging. "We built an arm that was similar in strength and dexterity to a human arm. That was a tremendous engineering challenge to make all that work." Yet simply building the arm wasn't enough.
• Hopkins lab in Howard County revolutionizing prosthetic limbs
  Aug 19, 2010 — Howard County Times
  That, in itself, is very challenging. "We built an arm that was similar in strength and dexterity to a human arm. That was a tremendous engineering challenge to make all that work." Yet simply building the arm wasn't enough.
• University of Illinois students test prosthetics on real patients
  Aug 11, 2010 — The News-Gazette
  Two others were injured when the truck in which they were riding tipped over. Naber's team took along eight prosthetic arms of three different designs. One design stressed utility and was geared to agricultural labor. Another was lighter and could adjust dynamically to what remains of the patient's arm.
• 'Bionic' men, researchers teach lessons in high-tech artificial body parts at Science Museum Oklahoma
  Aug 6, 2010 — The Daily Oklahoman
  The newest high-tech elbows allow the user to lift 10 to 12 pounds. They said kids' reactions to their artificial body parts can range from fear to "Wow. You've got a bionic leg." Green excelled at basketball, as well as track and field even though he was fitted with a prosthetic as a toddler.
• Phillies acquire Sweeney to fill in at first base for injured Howard
  Aug 5, 2010 — Philadelphia Daily News
  I haven't seen [Sweeney] in a couple of years, but he knows how to hit. Since Howard suffered a sprained ankle in the first inning of a win over Washington on Sunday, the Phillies have rotated between righthanded-hitting Cody Ransom and Gload. Gload entered his start last night hitting .282 with an .800 OPS and four home runs in 92 plate appearances and is considered a strong defensive first baseman.