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What are the chances of a reputable academic publisher paying $250,000
for a book on an invention so secret that the author hasn’t even told them what
it is? According to reports on the Net
(see www.msnbc.com/news/513749.asp?0cm=c10&cp1=1#BODY)
the publishers at Harvard have done
precisely that. When Netropolitan phoned, the publishers refused to comment on
the existence or otherwise of the book. But persistent reports allege that it
will detail a radical new invention from scientist Dean Kamen of DEKA Research
and Development Corporation in Manchester, New Hampshire
(www.dekaresearch.com).

Kamen is said to have demonstrated…

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