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...fact that organisms can survive in extreme - seemingly lethal - conditions is nothing new. Researchers have found creatures living at boiling vents on the floor of the ocean, in desert sands that virtually never see water; fossilized remains of microorganisms have even been found inside of rocks. Antarctic life, however, has always been a more complex matter. Antarctica was once a warmer, wetter land than it is now, but continental migration pushed it from place to place, leaving it - for the current epoch at least - at the bottom of the planet, where it became little more than a frozen desert...
...fact, on the issue of worker layoffs, Harvard has been far from “greedy.” Instead of simply firing workers, it has offered them lucrative early retirement plans and has limited layoffs at a time when many institutions are cutting hundreds or even thousands of workers. While the Harvard community rightly values workers on campus, in the end Harvard’s primary mission as a teaching and research institution must come before protecting unnecessary jobs. SLAM defies that primary goal by stifling academic debate through their coercive approach, and creating a divisive, charged environment inconducive...
...Zuckerberg must be at least partially right, because no one is leaving. In fact, Facebook continues to grow. Are users too addicted to quit? It’s more likely that Facebook usage became so widespread that, like cell phones and e-mail, people of a certain age would be more inconvenienced by signing off than by sticking with a flawed system...
Nevertheless, despite the victory celebrations, many expect the capture of "Don Mario" may do little to stem the drug trade nor the violence it brings - and may in fact trigger a surge in bloodshed. "When a capo comes down there is a fight to substitute him," says Francisco Thoumi, an expert and author of several books on the political economy of the drug trade. Says Adam Isaacson, a Colombia analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy: "Don Mario had important control over cocaine production and drug trafficking routes, and now they're all up for grabs." (See pictures...
...recent months. Spotify, which allows users to stream music for free in return for watching the odd ad online, has proved a hit since launching last October with the backing of the industry's big labels. Such services are "signs the music industry is waking up to the fact the best way to fight free isn't in the law courts, it isn't in parliament," says Mulligan, "it's with free itself...