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New Zealand motel owner bans whole town
A motel owner in New Zealand — fed up with one too many incidents of rowdy behavior — has banned an entire town from checking in as guests. Steve Donnelly, the owner of the Supreme Motor Lodge in the town of Palmerston North, said he decided to yank the welcome mat for the 16,000 residents of Wainuiomata because “each time they visited, our life became less exciting.” “I’m not Santa Claus
An Organism Survives Antarctica, and Maybe Mars
Say 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
Afghan president praises Obama’s new war plan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday praised U.S. President Barack Obama’s new plan for the war in Afghanistan. “He has our full support,” Karzai told a news conference