1...that the Galápagos tortoise is the largest living tortoise in the world, only native to the Galápagos Islands, where about 15,000 of them live? 2...that Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s? 3...that Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States? 

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." -- Jonas Salk

inoculable: vulnerable to a disease transmitted by inoculation

NIH: may be toxic to female employees (story) Puerto Ricans: world's most satisfied people? (story) Sahara: movie tops Fever Pitch at box office (story)

Galileo: trial for heresy began during Inquisition (1633) US Civil War: started when Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter (1861) Bill Haley and the Comets: recorded "Rock Around the Clock" and ushered in the era of rock 'n' roll (1954)

Vince Gill: country music superstar (48) TV/film: David Letterman (58), Claire Danes (26) writers: Beverly Cleary (89), Tom Clancy (58)