Olympics in brief: Women bombers
Women bombers
A teenage girl and a woman were among the suicide bombers responsible for Sunday’s attacks on a police station, government offices and shops in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, in northwestern China, officials said yesterday (Richard Lloyd Parry writes).
A 15-year-old girl, identified as Hailiqiemu Abulizi, was injured when a home-made bomb exploded prematurely.
She was said to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery for injuries including a broken leg and foot.
Another woman, who has not been identified by the authorities, died after setting off a bomb that she was carrying when she and four other attackers were cornered in a bazaar in the oasis town of Kuqa.
The authorities said that a total of ten attackers had died. All were Uighurs, a Muslim people who form the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang. Armed police were said to be continuing the hunt for three more suspected bombers yesterday.
Winning ways
The raised arms of the Olympic gold medallist and the slumped shoulders of the also-ran are both innate responses to victory and defeat. A study of athletes at the Athens Olympics and Paralympics in 2004 has shown that the body language linked with winning and losing is universal — and, it appears, biological in origin, not cultural. The responses were used by athletes of all cultures, including those blind from birth. Jessica Tracy, of the University of British Columbia in Canada, who led the study, said they may have evolved as signals of dominance or submission, as occur among many of our primate relatives.
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