Fun Fact: 4,560,110 Earthlings fell in love today; 4,567,007 fell out of love.Color Photo Caption: Paulo Maria Bispo, a beet farmer from Olivarria, Argentina, found a gold meteorite lying in his field while plowing yesterday afternoon. Mr. Bispo, father of three, will have the meteorite made into two gold front teeth replacing his current applewood dentures so his smile will be "like the sun from which this heavenly stone was born."
Black-and-White Photo Caption: Local children warmed their hands while the desert sky above Carson City, Nevada, USA, was black today with the smoke of hundreds of burning roulette wheels declared rigged by the Nevada State Gaming Commission. Meteorologists say the smoke will not affect global weather patterns.
Fun Fact: 3,089,240 women realized yesterday they are trapped in loveless marriages; 3,002,783 men.
Color Photo: In Pretoria, South Africa, the slopes of the city are a mass of lovely lavender jacaranda blooms; in Turukhansk, Siberia, the peat of the Siberian carbon sink - the planet's largest blomass - is browning with much dignity and is preparing to sleep for its one billionth winter.
Sporting News: 11 percent of motorists in the city of Tokyo, Japan, location of a major international sporting event this week, voluntarily stopped driving their cars so that competing athletes might breathe clean air. Tonight, one voluntary nondriver, Reiko Fukusawa, 24, an office worker from the Saitama Prefecture outside of Tokyo - a woman who considers herself to be overweight - will go to sleep and she will dream of athletes and their bodies and in her dream she will fly and tumble and she will be reunited with a part of herself she thought she had lost many years ago, back when she was young.
Sidebar with Pie Chart: 2,499,055 people were unable to sleep last night, waiting for medical tests to come back; 130,224 with good reason.
Feature Photo with Mini story: Astronauts on board the Space Shuttle conducting tests in orbit today released into their capsule's atmosphere a small blue bird, Kippy, hatched in outer space. Scientists captured on film Kippy's first confused weightless zigzags in the air. With no genetic memory of weightlessness to guide Kippy, he and is recently matured little wings essentially had to reinvent the whole process of flight from scratch in the free fall of orbit.
"We gave Kippy a seed bell for his bravery," said flight captain Don Montgomery. "He was brave. Kippy didn't have to fly, but he flew. Myself and the rest of the flight crew are very very proud."