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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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    Whole Foods says SEC concludes message board probe

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    Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:36pm EDT

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    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market (WFMI.O) said on Friday that Securities and Exchange Commission staffers have concluded a probe into its chief executive's anonymous Web chat room messages about then-rival Wild Oats Markets and recommended no action be taken.

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    Whole Foods said in July 2007 it had received an SEC inquiry related CEO John Mackey's anonymous postings on a Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) chat forum. Mackey for years used an alias when he posted positive comments about Whole Foods and critical comments about rival Wild Oats, which his company later acquired.

    (Reporting by Lisa Baertlein; Editing by Andre Grenon)



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