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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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    U.S. moving "quickly as possible" on Sirius: XM

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    Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:18pm EDT
    This combo picture shows an XM Satellite Radio unit (top) and rival Sirius Satellite Radio unit installed in separate private vehicles in Washington February 20, 2007. The Justice Department is moving ''as quickly as possible'' in its antitrust review of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Inc, a senior department official said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is moving "as quickly as possible" in its antitrust review of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's (SIRI.O) acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Inc XMSWW.OB, a senior department official said on Tuesday.

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    XM Satellite and Sirius have defended their planned merger, saying it is not anti-competitive because they compete with broadcast radio as well as MP3 players and other technology.

    Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, was asked about the review at a congressional hearing but declined to say when it would be completed.

    "We want to do that as quickly as possible, but we also want to get to the right answer," Barnett told lawmakers on the antitrust task force of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

    None of the lawmakers at the hearing has objected to the merger, although at least one state official has. Wisconsin's Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, has asked for it to be stopped.

    The National Association of Broadcasters has also opposed the deal.

    The Siriux-XM deal is being reviewed by the Department of Justice and by the Federal Communications Commission.

    (Reporting by Diane Bartz, editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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