What I've been reading

• Robert Fisk: For the Muslim World, It Will Make No Difference Who Wins the Election (AlterNet)
  "We use phrases like 'victory.' We should be using phrases like 'justice for the people of the Middle East.'"
• A Cure for Progeria, the Disease that Makes Children Die of Old Age (io9)
  It looks like a group of geneticists at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Maryland may have found a drug that can reverse the effects of heart disease caused by premature aging.