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WEST POINT — Sgt. Robert Brown stands fierce-faced on the treadmill, his nostrils pinned shut, his mouth strapped to a vacuum-cleaner-sized tube. Anxious Army cadets buzz around him, like mad scientists, taping marble-sized sensors to his hips, knees and ankles. On Brown's right leg rests their senior class project – the West Point bionic foot.Their goal: build the first powered foot-ankle prosthetic, a device that could lessen long-term side-effects (arthritis, back pain, nerve dama

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