A four-year-old boy from Atherstone becomes among the smallest people in the UK to have a successful lung transplant.

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Boy ‘smallest’ to get new lungs

David Smith, a model train enthusiast from New Jersey, has created the smallest functioning train set in the world. The tiny railway, 35,200 times smaller than its standard-sized counterpart, consists of a five-car train that moves through a tunnel on a circular track. But there’s a trick. The cars are not actually cars at all, but just indentations cut into one end of a short plastic tube. The tube descends into the base of the model train set where it is turned in circles by a rotating motor. View more Pictures of the Day . Images: David K. Smith. Via Izismile .

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Picture of the Day: The World’s Smallest Working Train Set

The Census Bureau will announce this month that New York State’s Congressional delegation will shrink to the smallest it has been in 200 years.

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New York to Lose 1 or 2 Seats in House