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...Valleys, albeit life that is primitive in form and exceedingly cryptic. Minuscule roundworms called nematodes and insects known as springtails constitute what biologists jokingly call the "lions and tigers of the soil." The top of the aquatic food chain is occupied by single-cell protozoa that feed on bacteria...
...hanging around the neighborhood have pinned up to 40 miles of sea ice next to shore, creating a daunting obstacle course for a nearby colony of Adelie penguins and a serious navigational hazard for people who service the station. The penguins are having trouble getting out to sea to feed--so much trouble that their numbers are in precipitous decline--and the NSF's supply ships are having trouble getting in. Earlier this month the NSF called in a second Coast Guard icebreaker to help clear the ice from McMurdo Sound...
...Feed and house America’s homeless
...days, Nadam drives a beat-up Mitsubishi Pajero for the General Federation of Iraqi Women. His rheumy eyes can only cope with daylight driving; Aadil, 27, takes over in the evenings. Between them, the men make 37,000 Iraqi dinars ($15) a month. That's not nearly enough to feed the family - even though, like all Iraqis, they get free rations of basic commodities such as flour, rice, cooking oil and sugar from the government. "All the money goes to buy medicines, or vegetables and meat," Nadam says, "we try to limit ourselves to spending 1,500 dinars (60 cents...
...Still, many of Baghdad's poorer residents would envy Nadam. At least he and his son have steady jobs. They don't have to feed a large family. And they don't have to pay rent: They live in a 2-room tenement behind the Federation's field office in the Baghdad's Bayaa district, a middle-class enclave with a grid of dusty but well-maintained roads and neat one- and two-story houses. In this neighborhood, Nadam's little home would cost around $13,000, a sum beyond his wildest dreams...