Page 1 of 3 A decade removed from his final pro bout, 1996 Olympic gold medalist David Reid, leads an isolated life in Marquette, Mich., where he wages a daily battle with severe depression. However, a small group of friends, including former coach Al Mitchell, refuse to give up on the American Dream. The room is small, dimly lit, but clean. A flat-screen TV sits in the tiny parlor where the curtains are always drawn. Boxing magazines and books are splayed out across the floor and kitchen table, but the room is empty, devoid of any presence or personality. David Reid prefers it this way. The 1996 Olympic gold medalist lives a cloistered, almost monastic life by choice. Reid rarely ventures from his modest two-bedroom ... Continue reading →

Look over there, swimming through the waves. Is it a fish? Is it a robot? No, it's ... well, yes. It is a robot: a robot shaped like a fish. And this week, it was swimming through the water off the Spanish port of Gijon, flexing its fins as it went through the motions of conducting the kind of coastal marine patrol for which it was created. ANALYSIS: Robot Records Fish Farts No, not that. This piscine Robocop is designed to hunt for pollution. Created by a consortium of scientists funded by the European Union, the fish is about 5 feet long, costs around $31,000, and is fitted with sensors to pick up pollutants leaking from ships or undersea pipelines. According to Luke Speller of ... Continue reading →

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