There may be evidence to suggest that children as young as three years old may already be "classifying" people. According to Lord Herman Ouseley, the former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, children need to "play together right from day one," to avoid becoming racists.

It surely wasn't love at first sight. Mary Jane Weimer and George Longmire finally tied the knot after he stood her up on a blind date nearly 60 years ago. The couple met in 1946, when George was a law student at the University of North Dakota and working at the Grand Forks Police Department, and she was working as a nurse in the same town. A mutual friend set up a blind date, but George said, "it wasn't confirmed," so he didn't go, he tells The Grand Forks Herald newspaper.

For a brief time, the hallowed 'house that Babe built' was a wedding chapel for a blind radio baseball reporter and his bride. It was the first time a wedding had been celebrated on the ball diamond itself. In unseasonably warm sunshine, 67-year-old Ed Lucas married his 51-year-old sweetheart, Allison Pheifle, at home plate.

High school graduation requirements for some Chicago public school students are unbelievable - the school district expects blind students to pass driver's education classes. Illinois state law requires that all districts offer driver's education, but does not mandate it as a graduation requirement. Hundreds of Illinois school districts require students to pass the class, although the state only requires districts to offer it. A spokeswoman for the state Board of Education tells the Chicago Tribune, "It defies logic to require blind students to take this course. "