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terrified. They were inside a mobile home, a notoriously unsafe place to be caught in a twister. But it was bearing down on them, and even though Robinson was holding onto Ayden as tight as he could, it wasn’t tight enough. “The wind just took him straight out of my arms,” said Robinson. After the storm passed, the trailer was in tatters. Robinson looked for Ayden but couldn’t find him. Then he heard the faint sound of crying. He followed the sound and found the baby, unharmed, lying on a pile of debris, almost as if he were carefully placed there. “He’s not supposed to be here now,” said his mother, “but he is!”
    BABY NEEDS A NEW CRIB
    “All of a sudden, the house just shook,” said Kenneth Enright, after a Toyota 4-Runner crashed into his Richmond, Kentucky, home in 2011. The truck had plowed into his 10-month-old daughter’s bedroom while she was taking a nap. “We ran in, and we didn’t see Aylinia,” said Enright. “All I saw was the vehicle actually on top of her crib!” Enright shimmied under the truck but still couldn’t see or hear any sign of his baby. But then, “She let out a cry, and there she was. She had her hands up, like, ‘Get me out of here!’” The driver of the SUV, who’d simply lost control, was “extremely apologetic.” Given that Aylinia was fine, the Enrights weren’t too concerned about the gaping hole in the side of their house.
    BABY BOUNCES
    A couple in Paris went for a walk one day in 2010 and left their two children—a three-year-old girl and an eighteen-month-old boy—alone in their 7th-floor apartment. (The parents were later charged with reckless endangerment.) Both kids climbed through an open window onto the balcony. People on the ground yelled at them to go inside, and the girl did, but the boy climbed through the railing...and fell from 80 feet up. Thankfully, Dr. Philippe Bensignor was positioned just right. The boy bounced off a restaurant awning and landed softly in the doctor’s arms. “He didn’t have a scratch,” said Bensignor. Making this truly lucky was that on just about any other day, the awning over the seating area would have been retracted, but because it was a bank holiday, the restaurant was closed and the awning was there.
First college to issue degrees: the University of Bologna, in 1088.
    BABY GOES FOR A SWIM
    When three-year-old Demetrius Jones’s grandmother awoke from her nap, the boy was missing. So was his battery-operated ride-on-top Chevy Silverado toy truck. After a frantic search, there seemed to be only one place the boy and the truck could have gone—into the Peace River next to the British Columbia campground where the family was staying. Family, neighbors, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police immediately started to hunt for Demetrius. “After three hours, we spotted what looked like some rocks or an eagle,” neighbor Don Loewen recalled. “The ‘rocks’ were the black tires of the overturned toy sticking out of the water. And what we thought was an eagle was the little boy’s blond head.” And he was alive. When they plucked Demetrius from the water, eight miles downriver, “He wasn’t even fazed,” said Loewen, “although he seemed pretty excited to be dealing with the police.”
    BABY TAKES THE TRAIN
    In 2009 just one day after Australian safety officials issued public service announcements warning parents at train stations to keep a close watch on their children, a mother at a Melbourne train station took her eye off her 15-month-old son’s baby carriage. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew the carriage forward; it rolled over the ledge, flipped over, and landed upside down on the tracks. The mother lunged for the child, but it was too late—the train came along a split second later, forcing her back. The train ran over the carriage and dragged it 30 feet before rolling to a stop. No one wanted to look underneath, but someone had to. To everyone’s amazement, the little boy was there, alive and okay. His