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ScienceDaily (2008-02-17) -- A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on their lab coats. They are hunting for extremophiles -- tough little creatures that thrive in conditions too extreme for most other living things.
 * __[|Hunt Begins In Strange Antarctic Lake]__**

[|Tough Breeds Of Livestock Disappearing: Saving Them Before It Is Too Late] ScienceDaily (2008-02-17) -- One professor of pathology and genetics has spent more than 30 years working to make sure certain living pieces of history -- some dating to the 15th century -- don't become extinct. His brand of living history comes in the form of various rare strains of livestock, which were involved in events like Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Caribbean Islands and the Spanish conquest of the Americas. ...