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Tavi Gevinson describes herself as a "tiny 13-year-old nerd that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats". Her Style Rookie blog has taken the fashion industry by storm and now she's getting ready to launch a teen magazine.

The young Tom Goldstein played in the World Series of Poker tournament, but he never used his winnings to support his law firm. His television alter ego, however, does. Accuracy sometimes gets lost for the sake of entertainment.

A 16-year-old Australian girl sailed her yacht out of Sydney Harbour in October, beginning an attempt to become the youngest person ever to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe unassisted.

Linus Torvalds was born in Helsinki in 1969. He is famous for developing the free computer operating system Linux. His personal symbol is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which the worldwide Linux community has made the icon of the operating system.

London is global, but it remains quintessentially British. The black cabs, the mother of all parliaments at Westminster, the red double-decker buses; the London Eye, just a decade old; Tower Bridge, a century old. Next: the Olympic Games in 2012.

The word "gossip" comes from the Old English godsibb, meaning a child's godparents. In the 16th century, it came to mean a person, usually a woman, who loves idle talk. Shakespeare, who was the first to use the verb, would have loved gossip magazines.