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...what you will about the simple, uninteresting lives of microorganisms, they're tough little critters. You try surviving for a million and a half years without heat, food or sunlight and see how you do. A team of National Science Foundation researchers just discovered a species of Antarctic organisms that has accomplished exactly that - and the microbes' unlikely survival can tell us a lot not just about the adaptability of life on Earth, but the prospects for it on Mars...
...first, the only one, awake. It’s not so familiar that I don’t have to look for the bathroom, so I shuffle around in the thick shag carpeting until I find it, behind a crudely painted white door that hangs ajar amidst winter sunlight. It’s a tiny attic bathroom with a sharp eave descending over the toilet so I have to hunch to stand under it and squint at the sharp light reflecting off the snow on the roof, through the diagonal glass panes of the window. It hurts so much that...
...lied down and looked up at the sky. So I did too.“What are you going to miss most about here?”“I don’t know.”I looked over at Katie, and I could see the sunlight gleaming on the side of her face. I wanted to reach out and stroke the side of her face with the back of my hand. And then, it was as if something had taken over my mind, and I was no longer in the driver’s seat. Every...
...Goldwork, of course, is Colombia's real forte, and this is dramatically on display in the heart of Bogotá's downtown at the Museo del Oro, tel: (57-1) 343 2221. It reopened last fall following a 10-year renovation. Drenched in sunlight and sprawling over a quartet of gallery-filled floors, the Museo includes 6,500 gold and ceramic pieces - many more than 2,000 years old. (See more about Colombia...
Residents protested the possible loss of sunlight and an increase in industrial noise that may result if Beal Companies, LLP, a Boston-based real estate firm, is permitted to move forward with the project...