And sports business experts think that to extend its powerful arm overseas, the league may soon be ready to ramp up its initiatives in those markets, from individual player agreements and overseas TV deals to the implanting of MLB franchises.

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Another problem with EMG prosthetics is that patients literally have to retrain their brains to make new associations between muscle movements and their outcomes a shoulder flex could become a grasp motion, for example, while a twitch of pectoral muscle in the chest may extend the artificial arm.

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But the wind was blowing in, hanging the ball up in the air just long enough for Baxter to extend with his left arm and grab it with his glove.

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The question that remains is whether or not the GOP can extend the hand of friendship to the Latino community without having its arm chopped off by the Republican base.

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