Sunday Reads - Losing Omar & Pussy James Bond?

The last two installments of the Reads Series were not published; here's resuming the series.

• Losing Omar: The pain
  of a parent whose child was killed in Gaza. (BBC) 

• Why does James Bond never
  go to the really dangerous places? (ForeignPolicy)

• Five Statistics
  problems that will change the way you see the world. (Atlantic)

• The box and the
  keyhole. (New Yorker)

Hat tip for the last article: Mohan Ramiah, my colleague and friend from Chennai.

Israel and the Palestinian territories are once again engaged in a major battle; Hamas fires rockets, Israel pounds Gaza with air strikes and so the story goes around. Israel's Iron Dome missile shield has been a major success and India is planning to buy this to ward off similar threats from Pakistan and its proxies like LeT.

Source: Reuters