ICELANDERS LIKE FISH

Iceland leads the world when it comes to per-person fish consumption. Japan is second, with Portugal close on its heels. What about the U.S.? A distant 14th place. Pass the fish sticks.

Louis Pasteur pioneered a process for sanitizing wine, beer and milk, and he developed a cure for rabies. Jonas Salk created a vaccine for polio. But who remembers Peter Moller? In 1854, this Norwegian pharmacist invented a method for producing medicinal cod liver oil, which fast became the best answer to the disease of rickets in malnourished children. And he was showered with awards.

Mother Nature sometimes gets confused as evidenced in Evans, Colorado. Residents of the town reported a rain of corn that lasted several hours. And in Aug. 2001, thousands of corn husks fell on Wichita, Kan., area homes. Eary.