Could a mid-twentieth century plaything be the cure for a modern epidemic of obesity among the young? Researchers are testing pogosticks as the newest exercise tool. Physical therapy researchers at Dalhousie University are using an updated version of the pogostick with middle school-age students. Already popular in the U. S. researcher Nichelle Hubley is testing a pogo stick workout among 11 10 to 13-year-olds. The kids take part in the six-week study assisted by Flybar, a Calif. -based pogo stick maker.

In November 18, 1942, Ernest Glenn Munn, 23, of St. Clairsville, Ohio left Sacramento, California for a training flight aboard an AT-7 navigational trainer plane together with three other companions from the army air corps. They never came back. Sixty five years later in August of last year, campers in a remote area of Kings Canyon sought the help of rangers as they discovered a frozen, decomposing body atop of a glacier. Not far away from the body is an un-launched military parachute.

Failing to bring proper identification cards with him, the mayor of Charleston, West Virginia used a magazine that featured him on the cover to get through a United States airport. Danny Jones was making his way through the security line at a California airport when he realized his driver's license was lost.

In an attempt to raise awareness for HIV, homelessness, and in support for the medical use of marijuana, a man has been traveling across the United States on his bike, all the while pedaling backwards. Starting last August in California, 36-year old cyclist Curan Wright has been cycling backwards through different states, with his navigation based solely on his peripheral vision.

The popular Internet classifieds site Craigslist was allegedly used by a woman to hire a hit man to kill a romantic rival. Police claim Ann Marie Linscott advertised she would pay $5,000 to have killed the wife of a Calif. man she was having an affair. Although the want-ad listed only a "freelance" job offer, those who answered the Craigslist posting were offered $5,000, plus the name and the address of the woman Linscott allegedly wanted "eradicated. " California police are now seeking the woman's extradition.