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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    DirecTV nears deal on baseball: report

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    A baseball game is seen at Washington's RFK Stadium in Washington, April 14, 2005. Major League Baseball is nearing completion of a controversial $700 million deal with satellite purveyor DirecTV Group Inc. <DTV.N> to exclusively air its out-of-market package of games for the next seven years, The Wall Street Journal reported. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball is nearing completion of a controversial $700 million deal with satellite purveyor DirecTV Group Inc. DTV.N to exclusively air its out-of-market package of games for the next seven years, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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    For baseball, the deal may be worth the controversy because DirecTV is throwing in a valuable sweetener -- guaranteeing distribution for a TV network MLB plans to start in 2009, the Journal reported.

    The proposed deal has upset fans and aroused opposition in Washington because it will disenfranchise an estimated 230,000 fans who previously watched the out-of-market games package -- known as Extra Innings -- on either DirecTV's satellite rival EchoStar Communications Corp.'s (DISH.O) Dish network or on cable services, the Journal said.

    If the deal goes through, fans will have to either switch to DirecTV or pay a fee to watch on MLB's Web site, the Journal reported.
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