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...team of researchers, including Ann Pearson of Harvard and Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth, was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and Harvard’s Microbial Sciences Initiative...
According to Pearson, an associate professor of earth and planetary sciences, the team based the research on samples collected from Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. This region is considered to be one of the world’s most extreme deserts and contains an iron-rich subglacial outflow, Blood Falls, which trickles from the Taylor Glacier...
...Pearson said Mikucki would camp out by the falls for weeks at a time for a number of years, waiting for the sporadic melting events during the summer when it would be just warm enough for the glacier to melt and for brine to flow...
...deluxe room, and get a $150 rebate for one night or a $325 rebate for two nights. Stay in a suite and get a $200 rebate for one night or $425 for two nights. Rates start at $425. The offer is good through Dec. 31. 160 East Pearson Street, Chicago...
...between U.S. Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers have not always been so cordial. Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney, both of Irish descent, became fast friends who enjoyed fishing together and singing duets. The closeness of their friendship was a significant factor in the eventual signing of NAFTA. But Lester Pearson, Prime Minister in the '60s, delivered a scathing antiwar speech in Washington at the height of the Vietnam War. The next day at the White House, Lyndon Johnson issued a stern reprimand: "You peed on my rug!" Relations between the two never recovered. And Richard Nixon once famously called Pierre...