Hard to imagine that something so small could make someone so sick, but it’s true. Some hundred years later malaria is still a major health threat across the world.

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Sure, they’re just a hunk of pine painted fancy on rubber wheels, but you know you’ll shriek and cheer when those homemade vehicles whip by at 4 mph.

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In case you didn't get the message, all televisions signals will be digital on February 17, 2009. This means that analog sets will need a special antenna. Don't worry, the federal government is on the case. In either a neat-o coincidence or the Federal Communications Commission showing a religious preference, on that date in 1958 Pope Pius XII named Saint Clare of Assisi of the patron saint of television. When she was too ill to go to mass, she miraculously could see it being celebrated on the wall and hear it. There is no patron saint for TV trucks, as far as I can tell. More >>