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With his school uniform and his plump, pinchable cheeks, Derek Jacobs of Boca Raton, Fla., looks like an ordinary youngster. But looks can deceive. When he was 12, Microsoft certified Derek as a qualified systems engineer, one of the youngest ever. At 13 he was running his own computer-consulting company. Now he's 14, and what's Derek doing for an encore? He's becoming a cyborg--part man-child, part machine...
...remorse, all proof of moral clarity. But the defense will try to show that her rationalization process was insane. The jail psychiatrist testified that upon her arrest, she said, "I was so stupid. Could I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Could I have offered Mary [her youngest]?" The jury could begin deliberating the case--and the conundrum of Andrea Yates' mind--this week or next...
...CHARGED. HUTOMO MANDALA PUTRA, 30, better known as Tommy Suharto, youngest son of the former Indonesian dictator, with the murder of a Supreme Court judge who in September 2000 sentenced him for graft; in Jakarta. Tommy has been in detention since November and is scheduled to face trial this month...
...travel the world” online, without talking to anybody, tasting the food or heaven forbid getting bitten by the mosquitoes. These experiences that make up life’s very fabric are so easily lost in the perpetual race to be the world’s youngest investment banker, then the world’s richest investment banker and finally the world’s youngest retiree. One can hardly wonder at the fact that Beat literature and the honest, unpretentious personal experiences it often features are at the center of the inevitable backlash. Neither should one be surprised...
...because I was lucky. I did a master's in Geneva, and scored the best results ever. Of course, I was lucky. I was a member of the government of Anibal Cavaco Silva when I was 29. Surely because I was lucky. At 36 I was one of the youngest Foreign Ministers ever in Europe. Once again, lucky. I think the country desperately needs some good luck...