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Dean of Invention

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Now more than ever, there is a great need for limb replacement.  More than a thousand soldiers have returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan missing an arm or a leg- a higher percentage' than in any previous conflict.  And every year 100,000 diabetics in this country suffer the same amputations.  But new advancements in prosthetics are changing the definition of what it means to be disabled.  DEAN OF INVENTION asks, are we entering an era of bionic humans, when disabled people become hyper-abled?