Word: pearsons
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...Poplar Lane and High Street heritage districts. In the area south of Lichfield Street (or simply SOL), lively venues like the Base dance club, www.thebase.co.nz, and Fat Eddie's jazz bar, www.fateddies.co.nz, rock their respective houses. Pub server Debbie Cartwright says "all ages hang together comfortably." Bryan Pearson, who manages local conference venues, thinks of Christchurch's navigable dimensions as a boon. "We have most of the benefits and amenities of a major city, with the essence of a village," he says...
...working sheep and cattle station that offers lodge accommodation if you feel like spending the night. But if you can't tear yourself away from downtown Christchurch, you'll be forgiven. "Most countries would kill to have just one of our major attractions," says venue manager Pearson. "We've got so many and still, the city remains the center...
...What’s truly amazing about this discovery is microbial continuity, how microbial communities can survive intense stresses and very dramatic cold stages. These microbes have been living in isolation for millions of years and yet they still bear great resemblance to modern marine species,” Pearson said...
...Harvard’s Hoffman Laboratory, Pearson and her colleagues discovered that these anaerobic microorganisms survive on iron that leaks out from the bedrock with the help of a sulfur catalyst. The microbes have adapted to the hostile subglacial environment by developing a new life cycle in which they breathe iron through sulfur...
According to Pearson, there could be a rich and diverse ecosystem that thrives beneath the glaciers. She even suggested that there could perhaps be life on other icy planets in the solar system; below the Martian ice caps or in the ice-covered oceans of Europa, a moon of Jupiter...