"Drunken Swede tries to row home" - BBC News on a drunk Swedish man who stole a dinghy to row home to Sweden from Denmark. He fell asleep half away across the 5km Oresund Strait. This is good local news.
"The Worms Crawl In" - NYT article on using hookworm infections to quell allergies. As an allergy sufferer, I will wait for the researchers to figure out the hookworms dampen one's immune response and wait for a pharmaceutical pill that is not a live parasite! Ewwwwwwww!
That looks quite a bit like the countryside in west texas, one of my favorite places, especially near Big Bend Natl. Park.