At least in the U.S. market, the frivolous 500 is so purely about self-presentation it's practically a prosthetic device.

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First, we will not look into the cost of medical care in individual cases, including the cost of a prosthetic device.

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After seeing Anantawan play in a video online, the man made a crude prosthetic device out of cardboard and took up the violin.

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He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.

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One new device, the iWalk prosthetic foot and ankle, uses a chip-controlled motor to propel amputees forward in the latest step toward robotic legs.

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