「知己知彼，百戰不殆」，合球隊教練謝芳怡說，她二○○七年開始擔任合球國家教練，因合球是西方人運動，她覺得應該用一些老祖宗的智慧求勝，買了一本白話的孫子兵法研究獨門戰術，突破了東方人身材矮小的不利因素。

「我很難說那一場球用了那些孫子兵法，只能說是心領神會，融貫在心。」昨天得牌的那一刻，向來冷靜的謝芳怡激動流淚。

「我國球員身高沒辦法和歐美國家比，所以要加強速度和反應的優勢。」在準決賽中，中華隊敗給比利時，謝芳怡和球員一度很挫折。但對俄羅斯之戰，她調整戰略，以速度和彈跳力取勝，虛虛實實，攻其不守，結果以廿五比十八打敗俄羅斯取得銅牌。

合球和籃球一樣，把球投入籃框算得分，但合球沒籃板，球員不能運球，只能傳球。每隊上場球員一定是男女各四，男生防守男生、女生防守女生，是兩性平等的球賽。

楊憲慈在柔術賽六十二公斤組女子對打中連贏兩場，決賽時遇德國選手，剛開始領先，「可惜被對方看穿我的戰略」。楊憲慈說，無法奪金很遺憾，但拿銀牌算滿意了。

就讀台體大競技系碩士班的楊憲慈原是柔道國手，曾獲兩屆東亞運柔道金牌，四年前開始練柔術，二○○六年參加哈薩克亞洲盃柔術賽奪得銀牌。

教練顏明正說，楊憲慈有豐富的國際賽事經驗，雖然練柔術時間不長，但抓到時機就給對方致命一擊，是智慧型選手。

IQONS (iqons.com) is a new on-line fashion community that aims to have the same impact on Fashion as MySpace had on music. Today, at a press conference held in London, IQONS was officially launched. The site has had a ‘soft launch’ over the last two months with events in Paris and New York and has already attracted thousands of members.

IQONS is a free on-line community focused on fashion and style for everyone from star designers, stylists and fashion photographers to fashion fans and consumers.

These members have already found, and connected with, fashion retailers, models, manufacturers, and like-minded people around the world. It has rich, timely content generated by its members and has a structure committed to providing support to new talent around the world in partnership with established fashion leaders.

Enzymes are generally globular proteins and range from just 62 amino acid residues in size, for the monomer of 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase, to over 2,500 residues in the animal fatty acid synthase. A small number of RNA-based biological catalysts exist, with the most common being the ribosome; these are referred to as either RNA-enzymes or ribozymes. The activities of enzymes are determined by their three-dimensional structure. However, although structure does determine function, predicting a novel enzyme's activity just from its structure is a very difficult problem that has not yet been solved.

Most enzymes are much larger than the substrates they act on, and only a small portion of the enzyme (around 3–4 amino acids) is directly involved in catalysis. The region that contains these catalytic residues, binds the substrate, and then carries out the reaction is known as the active site. Enzymes can also contain sites that bind cofactors, which are needed for catalysis. Some enzymes also have binding sites for small molecules, which are often direct or indirect products or substrates of the reaction catalyzed. This binding can serve to increase or decrease the enzyme's activity, providing a means for feedback regulation.

Like all proteins, enzymes are made as long, linear chains of amino acids that fold to produce a three-dimensional product. Each unique amino acid sequence produces a specific structure, which has unique properties. Individual protein chains may sometimes group together to form a protein complex. Most enzymes can be denatured — that is, unfolded and inactivated — by heating or chemical denaturants, which disrupt the three-dimensional structure of the protein. Depending on the enzyme, denaturation may be reversible or irreversible.

The story is set in the mid-21st century. Global warming has led to ecological disasters all over the world, and a drastic reduction of the human population. Mankind's efforts to maintain civilization lead to the creation of "mechas," advanced humanoid robots capable of emulating human thoughts and emotions. Among these androids there is an advanced prototype model named David, a mecha created by the Cybertronics company to resemble a human child and to "feel" love for its human owners. They test their creation on one of their employees, Henry Swinton and his wife Monica. The Swintons have a son, Martin, who has been placed in suspended animation until a cure can be found for his rare disease. Although Monica is initially frightened of David, she eventually warms to him after activating his imprinting protocol, which irreversibly causes David to feel love for her as a child loves a parent. As he continues to live with the Swintons, David is befriended by Teddy, a mecha toy, who takes upon himself the responsibility of David's well being.

Martin is suddenly cured and brought home; a sibling rivalry ensues between Martin and David. Martin's scheming behavior backfires when he and his friends activate David's self-protection programming at a pool party. Martin is saved from drowning but David's actions prove too much for Henry. It is decided for David to be destroyed at the factory where he was built, but Monica rather leaves him (alongside Teddy) in a forest to live as unregistered mechas. David is captured for an anti-mecha Flesh Fair, an event where useless mechas are destroyed before cheering crowds. David is nearly killed, but the crowd is swayed by his realistic nature and he escapes, along with Gigolo Joe (Jude Law), a male prostitute mecha on the run after being framed for murder.

The two set out to find the Blue Fairy, whom David remembers from the story The Adventures of Pinocchio. As in the story, he believes that she will transform him into a real boy, so Monica will love him and take him back. Joe and David make their way to the decadent metropolis of Rouge City. Information from a holographic volumetric display personality called "Dr. Know" eventually leads them to the top of the Rockefeller Center in the flooded ruins of Manhattan. David's human creator, Professor Hobby, enters and excitedly tells David that finding him was a test, which has demonstrated the reality of his love and desire. A disheartened David attempts to commit suicide by falling from a ledge into the ocean, but Joe rescues him, just as he is captured by the authorities.

David and Teddy take a submersible to the fairy, which turns out to be a statue from a submerged attraction at Coney Island. Teddy and David become trapped when the park's ferris wheel falls on their vehicle. Believing the Blue Fairy to be real, he asks to be turned into a real boy, repeating his wish without end, until the ocean freezes. 2000 years later, Manhattan is buried under several hundred feet of glacial ice, and humans are extinct. Mechas have evolved into an alien-looking humanoid form. They find David and Teddy: functional mechas who knew living humans. David wakes up and realizes the fairy was fake. Using David's memories, the mechas reconstruct the Swinton home, and explain to him via a mecha of the Blue Fairy that he cannot become human. However, they recreate Monica from a lock of her hair which has been faithfully saved by Teddy, but she will live for only a single day and the process cannot be repeated. David spends the happiest day of his life playing with Monica and Teddy. Monica tells David that she loves him and has always loved him as she drifts to sleep for her final time. This was the "everlasting moment" he had been looking for, he closes his eyes, falls asleep for his first time, and goes "to that place where dreams are born".