Up to a third of children are leaving primary school unable to use capital letters and periods properly, examiners’ reports have revealed.

It was Labor Day weekend and Francis Harrington’s pet basset hound Schuyler was lethargic and vomiting. Harrington believed Schuyler had swallowed a rock, as he had two previous times. On those occasions, his veterinarians had operated on Schuyler and removed the stones in relatively simple procedures that Harrington said cost between $800 and $900.

It’s not itsy-bitsy or teenie- weenie but the Burqini may prove to be just as popular as its polka-dotted predecessor.

The BBC came under new fire after it announced plans for a £200,000 TV documentary devoted to the most offensive word in the English language.

In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide, researchers at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center found that homicide rates among children, and among women and men of all ages, are higher in states where more households have guns.

The majority of new TVs produced today can be used to watch high definition and by 2010 81% of television households in the US will have HDTVs according to Kagen Research.

The following is an article by Futurist Thomas Frey that talks about how Roman Numerals were a numbering system that prevented an entire civilization from doing any higher math. That situation is not unlike many of the systems we have in use today.