CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the international space station yesterday, kicking off a huge home makeover that will allow twice as many astronauts to live there beginning next year.

Commander Christopher Ferguson guided the shuttle to a smooth docking as the two spacecraft soared 212 miles above India.

Gregory Chamitoff, was especially excited to see Endeavour. He's been living on the space station for almost six months, and the shuttle is his ride home. The first priority for the 10 astronauts was a crew member swap.

SEATTLE -- The One Laptop Per Child project is set to resume its Give One Get One promotion for its kid-friendly computers today with logistics help from Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.

With Give One Get One, shoppers spend about $400 to buy one of OLPC's rugged green-and-white XO laptops and donate a second to a child in a developing country.

Cambridge, Mass.-based One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit, sells the XO machines to governments in developing countries that give the computers to schoolchildren. The laptops use less power than regular PCs, and are designed to work in demanding, rural conditions.

About 473,000 XO laptops have been distributed in 31 countries, with nearly 200,000 more waiting to find their way into schools.

NEW YORK -- A 12-year-old New York boy with brain cancer has died after his family battled a hospital to keep him on a ventilator.

The lawyer for the Orthodox Jewish family said Motl Brody's bodily functions ceased Saturday. A machine had continued to work his lungs after he was pronounced dead Nov. 4 at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

The boy had already been declared brain dead, but some adherents of Jewish religious law say death occurs only when the heart and lungs stop functioning.

The family had asked a judge to prevent further tests for brain activity. The hospital argued that its "scarce resources" were being used "for the preservation of a deceased body."

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- After a month of fresh air, smoking is once again allowed inside Atlantic City's 11 casinos.

The City Council passed a total smoking ban in April, but then the financial meltdown rocked the economy and led to even steeper declines at the casinos.

The council changed its mind at the last moment and agreed to repeal the smoking ban for at least a year, but couldn't legally stop the no-smoking rules from taking effect on Oct. 15.

The ban expired a minute after midnight yesterday, and gamblers can now light up again.