The object at hand is a cane — slender yet strong, gleaming black, its handle widely arched to fit a big hand. The perfect accessory for a man with gracefully silvered hair, strikingly black ...

Using feedback from the prosthetic hand in the form of electrical impulses, the patients succeeded in distinguishing between items of various sizes, as well as between soft and hard objects by touch.

The object at hand is a bust of His Majesty King Mongkut of Siam (now Thailand), the man who loosely inspired the ruler played by Brynner, Rex Harrison et al. through thousands of performances of ...