Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LUCY, YOU GOT SOME SPLAININ' TO DO! The home in which classic comedienne Lucille Ball spent much of her childhood is going up for sale on the Internet -- again. Advertisement Published reports indicate that the home, at 59 W. Lucy Lane in Chautauqua County, N.Y., was home for Ball from the time she was eight until she was in her mid teens. It's in the rural village of Celeron. A real estate agent has put the building on the on-line auction site eBay. He's asking more than $98,000. This is the second time that the 112-year-old house has gone up for auction. The first time around, several bid more than $100,000, but failed to put their money where their bids were. The home is about an hour south of Buffalo. (Thanks to UPI's Dennis Daily) THINGS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND Advertisement The British reputation for amiable eccentricity is being stoutly maintained by Gerry McCrudden, first secretary at the High Commission in New Delhi. He has become the first diplomat in Indian history to obtain a license to drive a tricycle rickshaw (while refusing all appeals to carry passengers) -- claiming it was far more stable than a conventional two-wheel bicycle. He bought it from the wife of his boss, High Commissioner Rob Young, who had intended to use it as a garden ornament. (From UPI Hears) NEWS OF OTHER LIFE FORMS Humanity's early ancestors as they traveled the road out of Africa apparently were bent more on making love than war. Investigators from Washington University in St. Louis say they found DNA evidence for at least two major waves of migration from Africa, some 600,000 and 95,000 years ago, marked by the assimilation with -- not the defeating of -- people the wanderers encountered along the way, they report in the British journal Nature. "Humans expanded again and again out of Africa," said biology Professor Alan Templeton, leader of the team that conducted the most thorough and expansive genetic analysis of its kind to date. "But these expansions resulted in interbreeding, not replacement, and thereby strengthened the genetic ties between human populations throughout the world," he added. Advertisement The findings beg for more research, scientists said. "There is much future potential for extending the analysis. More and more DNA regions are being sequenced, and sample sizes are increasing," Templeton told UPI. "I therefore regard the current analysis as providing only a rough framework of recent human evolution. As more and more of human DNA regions are sampled, more and more insights are bound to follow. Hence, this analysis is just a beginning, not the end, of our work on recent human evolution." (Thanks to Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Senior Science Writer) TODAY'S SIGN THE WORLD IS ENDING A 27-year-old teacher's aide in suburban Chicago has been charged with having sex with a sixth-grade boy. Prosecutors say Regina Woodson began a two-month sexual relationship with the 12-year-old last March. She'd met the boy through her job at Sipley School in Woodridge, Ill. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Woodson aroused the suspicion of school officials last May when she called the school, impersonating the child's mother to report the boy would be absent. The school called the child's parents and alerted police, who found the boy hiding in a closet at Woodson's apartment. In August, she pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Advertisement Through her attorney, Woodson -- who is married and expecting her first child -- has denied any sexual misconduct with the boy. AND FINALLY, TODAY'S UPLIFTING STORY Don't listen when they tell you not to play with your food. Joey Lauer Jr. didn't and now he's the grand prize winner of the national Oscar Meyer Lunchables "Build Your Own Fun" contest. Held Tuesday at Legoland in San Diego, Calif., the competition pitted five finalists to see who could build the most creative sculpture made only of Lunchables fun snacks. The 11-year-old Lauer, from Avondale, Ariz., made a Hover Craft of the future entirely out of Brownies, rice crispy squares and sprinkles. He won $10,000 towards college and a one-year supply of Lunchables fun snacks.
