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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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    Nortel shares drop 79 percent on TSX after bankruptcy filing

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    Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:06pm EST

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Shares of Nortel Networks Corp plunged 79 percent at mid-morning in Toronto on Wednesday after North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment filed for bankruptcy protection.

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    Shares of the company, which were halted ahead of the market open, fell as much as 30.5 Canadian cents to 8 Canadian cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange, before recovering slightly to 13.5 Canadian cents. The stock was still halted in New York.

    Nortel shares were also the most active issue in Toronto with more than 9 million shares changing hands.

    ($1=$1.22 Canadian)

    (Reporting by Natalie Armstrong; editing by Jeffrey Hodgson)
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