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Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.
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On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch delivered a one-of-a-kind lecture that made the world stop and pay attention.
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