Scary Baggage Claim

Parents checking their bags at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport suddenly realized their small son was nowhere to be seen. Panic set in as the airport police were called and began a search. 

They found him some minutes later out back, unhurt, riding the conveyor belt around.  

Source: World Magazine Vol. 38, No. 11, p. 19.

“…let endurance have its perfect result…” James 1:4

A Polish man has spent ^$1,550 in fees over seventeen years for 192 attempts to pass the nation’s written driver’s license test. 

He may get encouragement—or consolation—to hear that a sixty-eight-year-old South Korean woman finally passed her driver’s exam in 2009, after 900 tries! 

Source: World Magazine, 11.09.19 Volume  36, No. 8, p. 17.

“Divine” Advice

A team of scientists based in London deleted a gene from twenty-five human embryos using the gene editing CRISPR (an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”). Within two weeks they were alarmed to discover numerous unintended edits which would likely lead to birth defects and even cancer later in life. They were all killed immediately.

Yard Sale Bonanza

A 20,623% return on your investment, in less than a year?! That’s what a person in New Haven, CT, stumbled upon at a garage sale. 

The ^$35 purchase of a blue and white porcelain lotus bowl was later sold at auction by Sotheby’s for ^$721,800. It turned out to be a rare (one of only seven known) and valuable fifteenth-century Chinese artifact from the Ming Dynasty.   

Source: World Magazine, 04.10.21 Volume 36, Number 7, p. 18