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Nick Vujicic was born with a rare disorder: he has no arms and no legs. Yet has tried hard, and learnt to be happy despite everything. And he made it. Today, Nick spends a lot of his time sharing his courage with others. We selected a few powerful quotations on self-belief from Nick’s book,  Life Without Limits . They can help literally anyone find courage, give them hope, and fill their hearts with self-confidence to achieve their dreams. If you need a friend, become someone else’s. If you don’t have hope, give hope to others. If no one opens, knock on several doors at once. We all can find something bad or imperfect in each other. But I prefer to look for grains of gold. Act in a such a way as to guarantee that your own actions inspire and empower you. We shouldn’t wait for happiness to simply ...

REMEMBER: WATT IS THE UNIT OF POWER By   Dave Gershgorn   Posted  Yesterday at 9:47pm The Asahi Shimbun The LFEX petawatt laser. Researchers at Osaka University  are claiming  to have fired the most powerful laser in the world. The 2-petawatt (two quadrillion watt) pulse lasted just one picosecond (a trillionth of a second). For a rough comparison, in 2013, a 50 kilowatt (50,000 watt) laser  shot down a drone two kilometers away . Osaka's mega-powerful laser is called  LFEX , or Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments, and measures more than 300 feet long. While two petawatts is a formidable amount of power, the idea of a petawatt laser isn’t new. The United States has a few of their own, notably a  one-petawatt laser  at the University of Texas at Austin. Michael Donovan, associate director for the Texas Petawatt, says that it’s important to remember when talking about lasers of this size that, while the power ...

100 most powerful Arab women 2012 Rank Name Sector Country of residence 1 Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi Government UAE 2 Tawakkul Karman Culture and society Yemen 3 Lubna Olayan Banking and finance Saudi Arabia 4 Princess Ameerah Al Taweel Culture and society Saudi Arabia 5 Raja Easa Al Gurg Construction and industry UAE 6 Dr. Amina Al Rustamani Media UAE 7 Sheikha Munira Qubeysi Culture and society Syria 8 Sheikha Al Bahar Banking and finance Kuwait 9 Hayat Sindi Science US 10 Kholoud Faqih Culture and society Palestine 11 Lama Sulaiman Government Saudi Arabia 12 Fatima Al Jaber Construction and industry UAE 13 Fairuz Culture and society Lebanon 14 Nadine Labaki Media Lebanon 15 Christine Sfeir Retail Lebanon 16 Suzanne Al Houby Sport UAE 17 Leila El Solh Culture and society Lebanon 18 Sheikha Hessa Bint Saad Abdullah Salem Al Sabah Culture and society Kuwait 19 Buthaina Al Ansari Culture and society Qatar 20 Thoraya Ahmed Obaid Culture and society Saudi ...