The cases themselves are anything but funny, but how people are talking about them can be fascinating.

“When a surgeon in an operating room … cuts and cleans and amputates, and the wound bleeds, do we say to him your hands are stained with blood? Or do we thank him for saving the patient?”

Today’s flotilla includes more than three dozen “Dunkirk Little Ships,” private boats that rescued thousands of British soldiers from the beaches of France after the German invasion in 1940.

In a key test involving nearly 1,000 women with very advanced disease, the experimental treatment extended by several months the time women lived without their cancer getting worse.

The man charged with killing Trayvon Martin surrendered to police and was listed as an inmate on a jail website about 40 minutes before the 2:30 p.m. deadline.