12-year-old girl who blogged cancer fight has died


A 12-year-old Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. Jessica's goal to get one "like" for each of the estimated 50,000 American children with cancer.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45906872/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/





Arfa Karim

A Pakistani student and computer prodigy, who in 2004 at the age of nine years became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in the world,[1] a title she kept until 2008.


As of 2011, at the age of 16, Arfa Karim was studying at the Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus in her second year of A Levels. She suffered a cardiac arrest after an epileptic seizure which damaged her brain on 22 December 2011.


http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/14/10158059-programming-prodigy-passes-away-at-16-hear-her-philosophy-of-life



Informant: Martin Weatherall



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