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Somewhere at my mom's house languishing in a closet is an old Mac Plus with 1K of RAM--but it would run the old original SimCity. Somewhat earlier, when I was a senior in high school we learned to program basic on a roomful of Apple II's (that used the floppy floppies). Those of us who mastered it got to go to programming competitions in Texas. Yes, we were about as popular as the math club or the Latin club.
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This is an excellent example of terrible medical reporting. Neuologicablog is the first good review of the reporting and the likely facts of the case I've seen. This case has been parroted all over the internet, and I'm too furious at the lousy reporting and medical inaccuracies to even go into the issues that neurologica has already nicely summarized.
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I would eat something after 5 seconds on my kitchen floor... but not a public bathroom floor...
Context is everything here. Even ingesting E. coli is not *necessarily* going to make you sick. And most environmental bacteria will not make you sick. Food is not sterile.
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I actually don't like "horror" movies, but I love zombie movies. Shaun of the Dead may be my favorite movie ever. NOTLD and Return are both classics, of course. Here are a couple of recent ones I've liked:
Bad Sheep. Carnivorous zombie sheep in New Zealand. Hilarious! Don't miss the zombie fetal sheep attack. mmmmaaaaa! mmmmmmmaaaaaaa!
Fido is a hilarious zombie-comedy.
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Sorry to be logical, but they're probably some kind of over-engineered foundation for a trellis or swing or something. The bent over bolts held the sill/lumber to it. When the structure came down, Tony thwacked the bolts over when he buried it so no one would impale their feet when walking over the thinnly covered foundation.

I agree, check with the neighbors. Likely something the kids used when they were little and Tony took down when they were out of the house.
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Dunno what dwarfism disorder she has, but it's not achondroplasia. Her head/body are proportionate, which is NOT typical of achondroplasia (who have large heads, and short arms/legs in proportion to height http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondroplasia). Perhaps primordial dwarfism or one of many many other disorders.

In addition, if the measurements in the article are correct (1'11"= 23 inches), she is indeed very tiny, not the nearly 3 feet that JTPednaud calculates. I am not familiar with specific heights of other very small little people (like Kenadie noted above), but the young woman is indeed among the smallest in the world is my guess, though I agree that "records" are not established until adult stature is attained.

Good for her for being so (apparently) well-adjusted to her size and life, though I'm not sure anyone can make that judgment based on a single short article in a newspaper.

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