The joints in its fingers, thumb and wrist provide 24 degrees of freedom (a degree of freedom is the ability of one part of a system to move independently of the others in a particular way, as a ship may yaw, pitch or roll).

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To be a real critic of the education system and the trendy reforms of the day, one has to abandon, to whatever degree possible, tribalism.

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And Adam McNichol - one of the few teaching this subject who has a computer science degree - told us the whole education system needed to change, so that the value of the subject was recognised.

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While the tidal wave of steeply discounted hotel properties didn't occur to the degree expected, a number of distressed properties still are winding through the system and selling on a one-off basis, said Jan Freitag, senior vice president of STR Global, a lodging research firm.

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