She's just 15 years old. The story is here, including this (12-minute) video of her capture. Story begins:
The 15-year-old girl had the chubby cheeks of a child who hadn't lost her baby fat when she was arrested Sunday by an alert policeman. Around her chest was a vest packed with explosives. The policeman chained her to the bars of a window, stripped off her dress, found the vest and deactivated the bomb. Had he not intervened, Rania would have been this year's 31st suicide bomber in Iraq.

A day later, Ra

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A hard-fought point. I played a lot of badminton in college---though not at this level.

The Elder Grandson dearly loves a flashlight

Great discovery.

His contribution (negative, alas):

Daniel Goleman wrote a superb book, Vital Lies, Simple Truths---highly recommended---and I thought this talk was interesting

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Martin Seligman is the author of the fascinating book, Learned Optimism, which I perennially recommend.

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Great book---and the movie looks as though it will be good, too.

Thanks to Bob for the pointer to this interesting talk.
"Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into "fourth-generation fuels" -- biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the reasons why we would want to do this, and the bioethics of synthetic life. A fascinating Q&A with TED

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Thanks to commenter Leah for pointing out this software. It looks as though it would work well for small group efforts.