Sasser worm creator avoids jail term
Damage punished? What may have pushed a teenager to wreak worldwide havoc among computer users?

London attacks
I'm going back to blogging after a long interruption.
This will be a selection of what might be interesting vocabulary for my psi students to know about what is happening in the world.
Today of course on top of the pile are the comments about the appalling attacks in the London tube.
Some key words:

the Economist

the underground, the tube,perpetrators,rush hour,to be at risk,to occur,an ally, bombing,evidence,intelligence services
to thwart=to prevent
accuracy=precision
sympathizers
commanding=strong, powerful
effective,weakness,a failure,strength,
to launch
tight (security)
biological, chemical or nuclear weapons
to endure= to suffer, to tolerate
to bounce back
resilient=tough, strong/resilience
to pour into the city,to resume normal lives
casualties/light/heavy
to press on=to continue

New York Times

coordinated bombs
stunned= shaken= shocked,bloodied,stoic,
commuters
a bloodbath
“police in yellow slickers sealed off streets”
the subway
to halt=to stop
rescue workers,paramedics,the dead,the wounded
to tear open,a double-decker bus, the blast
suicide bombings,deadly=fatal,emergency
to weaken
to blame something on somebody
to shy from doing something
barbaric
to uphold a principle
fanaticism
to prevail=to triumph
a terror strike
to tear through,to rip through
a hub,bound for,the death toll
ferried to hospital,swathed=enveloped,a (space) blanket
soot
injured,limbs
to cordon off=to close
warnings
a truce=a ceasefire
cough,choke,to remain calm,a backlash (against someone)
law-abiding
a wake-up call

sending a shiver down your spine, aren't I?
New Zealand will be a haven for GMO crops, according to an article published in the MIT Technology review!
Other reasons to feel concerned:
mad cow disease found in goat.

Bird flu passed between humans .
I am definitely feeling that shiver down my spine.

Today's essentials
I did not manage to connect myself until today. This was written on January 27th.
Sixty years ago, Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis. Let's never forget the awful acts committed by human beings like you and me. How can such barbarity towards fellow human beings develop? Mon semblable, mon fr?re! I weep in agony as if I were somehow infected, tainted by what occurred then.
On January 19th, Schwarzenegger's `enlightened' California murdered an inmate on death row by injections of lethal drugs
A hundred years ago Einstein published some of his seminal work and the face of the world was forever changed.

volunteering
article new york times
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two hints
here are two interesting news items: the first one deals with the spread of cosmetic surgery http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4195525.stm while the second tells us about the changes in the population of New York http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/nyregion/24immigrant.html?oref=login&th

I did it
That picture was huge! Live and learn.

first steps
As part of the on-line course EVO2005, I'm trying to create my first blog.How elating!