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Peru's famed "Ice Maiden," the frozen mummy of an Inca girl sacrificed to the gods 500 years ago, might be at risk from humidity. Dampness was detected inside the mummy's glass-enclosed refrigeration compartment by an expert from the Smithsonian Institution, who warned that the mummy could be destroyed within five years if the problem is not corrected. The "Ice Maiden" was discovered in 1995 in a ceremonial burial pit near the top of Mount Ampato.

DEFINITION: (noun) A craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines. SYNONYMS: ground-effect machine. USAGE: The police lost track of the bank robbers at the water's edge, where the thieves escaped in a hovercraft.

Strong-willed and astute, Wilhelmina I enjoyed great popularity as queen of the Netherlands. She reigned for 50 years and guided her country through two world wars. Wilhelmina also had a keen understanding of business matters, and her investments made her one of the wealthiest women in the world and the first woman to accumulate a net worth in excess of a billion dollars. In 1948, Wilhelmina abdicated in favor of whom?

Edison helped design the kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern motion picture projector. It worked through a phenomenon known as "persistence of vision," in which a sequence of images is blended by the eye to create the illusion of motion. Because the work of so many others had gone into its invention, Edison never bothered to apply for an international copyright on the device, believing that it would not stand up in European courts. What effect did this have on the development of cinema?

Benjamin Spock was an American pediatrician who wrote one of the best-selling books of all time, Baby and Child Care, published in 1946. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies. Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis, and his revolutionary message to mothers was, "You know more than you think you do." Politically active, he was also the People's Party candidate for president in 1972. What extensive changes did he help bring about in child care?