Dr Hunter and his colleague Bruce Smaill have done the research that has allowed Dr Noble and Dr Winslow to knit their equations for single cells into a model of an entire organ.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

Rather than admit that by agreeing to release hundreds of murderers from jail he is placing every single family in the country at risk, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert describes his urgent pleadings to Hamas as a noble gesture towards the Schalit family, a gesture which supposedly gives expression to Judaism's commitment to Jewish captives.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's balance of delusion