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The following articles were selected for their inspirational or thought-provoking value (for NY Times articles, unfortunately only abstracts are free online):

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• Dean Kamen shows some video of the impressive, mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm he's invented...
  By Dylan Tweney  
  Updated June 2, 2008
   
• Moving toward more lifelike artificial limbs - “Robo-moth” hybrid, squid's beak show promise for improving prostheses
  By Bryn Nelson - MSNBC 
  updated 12:06 a.m. ET,Mon., May. 12, 2008
   

• Regimen Benefits Children with Cerebral Palsy
  New York Times February 3, 2004
   
  A small study of babies and children with cerebral palsy suggested that they could learn to use their weaker arms by following an intensive form of therapy originally developed for adult stroke victims. Improvements were seen in as little as three weeks. The children’s dominant arm was put in a lightweight fiberglass cast. The children then received constraint-induced therapy and were praised lavishly whenever they began to learn new skills (including picking up puzzle pieces, breaking soap bubbles with their fingers, and pounding balls into holes with a plastic hammer). The children learned an average of nine new motor patterns (one 4-year-old, whose weaker arm previously hung limply at his side, learned to use it to play baseball—he bats with both hands and uses an adapted glove for his impaired hand).
   
  It seems like this line of research may prove helpful for prosthetic training in children with upper limb differences.
   

  Surfer on Her Way Up, Brought Down by a Shark
  New York Times November 4, 2003
  
  THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: THE WOUNDED; Rebuilding Bodies, and Lives, Maimed by War
  New York Times November 16, 2003

   

  On The Job With Ann Ballentine: TV Anchor Never Weighed Down By Disability
  inMotion Magazine, March 1998

  Ms. Ballentine is a news anchorwoman whose left arm ends two inches below her elbow. She is welcomed into homes across Wisconsin on WTMJ-TV, Channel 4, the state’s highest-rated station, is the proud mother of three and a happily married woman.