[Seattle, November 8. Image via Getty]

SEATTLE - NOVEMBER 08: A Seattle Seahawks fan watches the game against the Detroit Lions on November 8, 2009 at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks defeated the Lions 32-20. (Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)

• Arnaldo Silva and his daughter Vanessa were both diagnosed with breast cancer within the same year and both went through treatment together in 2007. • An Iraqi woman and her Iraq war-veteran husband learn how to deal with post-war life and economic struggles in America. • Amputee Chinese dancers Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei both perform a ballet titled "She Without Arm, He Without Leg."• Virginia's General Assembly is considering a bill that would require insurance companies to cover the medical costs to treat autism, which can sometimes cost families $5 million over a lifetime to support a single autistic child. • A new study suggests that men are more likely to meet an online acquaintance "in real life" than women. • A London judge was criticized by a London appeals judge yesterday for calling a trio of middle-aged female muggers "over-the-hill slappers." • According to a federal indictment that was unsealed this week, a teenage Afghan girl was enslaved by five Afghan immigrants in the Seattle area where she was beaten and sexually assaulted by her 37-year-old husband for two years. •