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Together with Alibaba, Foxconn made a $236 million investment in SoftBank Robotics Holdings (SBRH), the division behind Pepper, so that explains why Foxconn's native Taiwan was picked as the first international sales stop outside of Japan.

Neben and Christine Thorburn were added to the road team; Mary McConneloug was picked as the second selection to the mountain bike roster.

1. Is there a high level of disgust, criticism, hate, or anger that has been produced by Michael Sam being picked as the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the NFL? 2. Many have described his arrival in the NFL as the equivalent, or even comparable, to what Jackie Robinson faced as he integrated baseball?

Selectors were weighing up whether Bracewell or Matt Henry should be picked as the third quick behind openers Trent Boult and Tim Southee.

The city has been picked as the site of the ninth annual Wild in the Streets, a national skating event on Thursday, international Go Skateboarding Day.

[CARRIE V.O.]: And from whining to *wining*, I'd been picked as the new host of the fourth hour of "Today".

Soon after, he was picked as one of the first crop of astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven.

Carson, a fourth-year guard-forward, was picked as an All-Star for the first time.

He went 11-5 with a 3.94 E.R.A. before the break and was picked as an All-Star for the first time in his career.

Myriad challenges On the shores of the Nile, the village of Terekeka has been picked as one of the first locations in this unprecedented public health campaign.

"Given England have a spinner who's been tonked throughout the series, a batsman being picked as first choice seamer, a guy making his ODI debut and another making his series debut" muses Kevin Wilson, "why on earth was Wright picked to replace Trott.