1. Study Cautions Runners to Limit Their Water Intake: An increasing number of athletes - marathon runners, triathletes and even hikers in the Grand Canyon - are severely diluting their blood by drinking too much water or too many sports drinks, with some falling gravely ill and even dying.

2. Why is Trivial Pursuit on the decline?

3. Prostate cancer is far more common in men than breast cancer is in women. Yet the public awareness of the two diseases could not be more different. Women have mammograms, ultrasounds, pink-ribbon days, designer T-shirts and celebrity-awareness campaigns. Like breast cancer, cancer of the prostate is treatable if caught early enough. Unlike breast cancer, it is also completely curable. Yet more men in North America and in Britain still develop prostate cancer-and more die of it-than any other cancer other than that of the lungs. Why so?

4. Haven't you always wondered? The Explainer:

What Do Pirates Want From Us These Days?
How much is your downloaded/stolen music worth?
What should you do if your identity is stolen?
Why are some feasts movable? How come Easter moves around while Christmas stays put?
How often is Atlantis "discovered"?
What's the difference between flak jackets and bulletproof vests?

5. Photography:


Lake Michigan Morning, Chicago, Illinois, USA.


The Cob, Lyme Regis, England