People of all ages, many with disabilities, and few even without limbs kept running.

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The sitters had either been born without limbs, or had lost them through accident, war or illness.

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Harald Stock, Gruenenthal's chief executive, issued his company's apology at the unveiling of a bronze statue symbolising a child born without limbs because of thalidomide.

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For a tidy sum and some untidiness, Kinect enables the kind of motion-sensing gameplay that has become the Wii's hallmark without having to strap the controller to various limbs (as with EA Active for Wii).

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Building functional prosthetic limbs is one thing, but doing it without the aid of fingers?

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Born without fibula in both legs, he had double amputations as a child and needs carbon-fiber prosthetic limbs to race.

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