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BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein officially begins leave of absence; board vows 'thorough' investigation

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  In a statement issued Friday, the Weinstein Company board stressed, "It is essential to our company's culture that all women who work for it or have any dealings with it or any of our executives are treated with respect and have no experience of harassment or discrimination."

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JPL News - Day in Review

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Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life

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› A long-gone sea on southern Mars once held nearly 10 times as much water as all of North America's Great Lakes combined, a recent report estimates.

› The report interprets data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as evidence that hot springs pumped mineral-laden water directly into this ancient Martian sea.

› Undersea hydrothermal conditions on Mars may have existed about 3.7 billion years ago; undersea hydrothermal conditions on Earth at about that same time are a strong candidate for where and when life on Earth began.

› The report adds an important type of wet ancient Martian environment to the diversity indicated by previous findings of evidence for rivers, lakes, deltas, seas, groundwater and hot springs.

The discovery of evidence for ancient sea-floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin of life on Earth.

A recent international report examines observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of massive deposits in a basin on southern Mars. The authors interpret the data as evidence that these deposits were formed by heated water from a volcanically active part of the planet's crust entering the bottom of a large sea long ago.

"Even if we never find evidence that there's been life on Mars, this site can tell us about the type of environment where life may have begun on Earth," said Paul Niles of NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. "Volcanic activity combined with standing water provided conditions that were likely similar to conditions that existed on Earth at about the same time -- when early life was evolving here."

Mars today has neither standing water nor volcanic activity. Researchers estimate an age of about 3.7 billion years for the Martian deposits attributed to seafloor hydrothermal activity. Undersea hydrothermal conditions on Earth at about that same time are a strong candidate for where and when life on Earth began. Earth still has such conditions, where many forms of life thrive on chemical energy extracted from rocks, without sunlight. But due to Earth's active crust, our planet holds little direct geological evidence preserved from the time when life began. The possibility of undersea hydrothermal activity inside icy moons such as Europa at Jupiter and Enceladus at Saturn feeds interest in them as destinations in the quest to find extraterrestrial life.

Observations by MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) provided the data for identifying minerals in massive deposits within Mars' Eridania basin, which lies in a region with some of the Red Planet's most ancient exposed crust.

"This site gives us a compelling story for a deep, long-lived sea and a deep-sea hydrothermal environment," Niles said. "It is evocative of the deep-sea hydrothermal environments on Earth, similar to environments where life might be found on other worlds -- life that doesn't need a nice atmosphere or temperate surface, but just rocks, heat and water."

Niles co-authored the recent report in the journal Nature Communications with lead author Joseph Michalski, who began the analysis while at the Natural History Museum, London, andco-authors at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and the Natural History Museum.

The researchers estimate the ancient Eridania sea held about 50,000 cubic miles (210,000 cubic kilometers) of water. That is as much as all other lakes and seas on ancient Mars combined and about nine times more than the combined volume of all of North America's Great Lakes. The mix of minerals identified from the spectrometer data, including serpentine, talc and carbonate, and the shape and texture of the thick bedrock layers, led to identifying possible seafloor hydrothermal deposits. The area has lava flows that post-date the disappearance of the sea. The researchers cite these as evidence that this is an area of Mars' crust with a volcanic susceptibility that also could have produced effects earlier, when the sea was present.

The new work adds to the diversity of types of wet environments for which evidence exists on Mars, including rivers, lakes, deltas, seas, hot springs, groundwater, and volcanic eruptions beneath ice.

"Ancient, deep-water hydrothermal deposits in Eridania basin represent a new category of astrobiological target on Mars," the report states. It also says, "Eridania seafloor deposits are not only of interest for Mars exploration, they represent a window into early Earth." That is because the earliest evidence of life on Earth comes from seafloor deposits of similar origin and age, but the geological record of those early-Earth environments is poorly preserved.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, built and operates CRISM, one of six instruments with which MRO has been examining Mars since 2006. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver built the orbiter and supports its operations. For more about MRO, visit:

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Common Sense Tax Reform Will Accelerate Small Business Success

 

"FROM PITTSBURGH, A PERSONAL PLEA FOR TAX REFORM"

- Linda McMahon, Guest Op-Ed Penn Live


In a guest column for Penn Live, SBA Administrator Linda McMahon quotes Wendy, a small business owner in Pittsburgh, who says tax reform is "the single most critical piece of legislation" that needs to be passed. McMahon writes that if Wendy's tax rate were lower, she would be able to double her growth projections over the next five years, which would mean she could hire more workers. "Wendy is far from the only small business owner pleading for tax reform," McMahon states, and that she hears a common theme amongst those individuals: "they want their taxes to be lower and less complicated." McMahon also lays out the fundamentals of President Trump's tax framework, focused on the four pillars to make it easy, make it fair, win again, and bring it home, before concluding that "America's 29 million small businesses are the engines of our economy. Common sense tax reform will accelerate their success and fuel our nation's economic growth."
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At Fox News, contributor Steve Cortes writes that President Trump "has already delivered real results for Hispanics" on the economy, ending the DACA program with "empathy," and his administration's response to Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico.

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In foreign policy news, Bryan Bender of Politico reports President Trump plans to launch a new public campaign against the Lebanon based armed wing of Hezbollah as a part of a broad effort to counter the malign activities of Iran, who happens to be the chief backer of the militant group.

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Regarding tax reform, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Glenn Hubbard writes in The Wall Street Journal that President Trump's tax framework "offers economic gains from lower business tax rates, a competitive territorial tax system for multinational companies, and more-favorable treatment of business investment in plant and equipment."

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And in the Washington Examiner, Americans for Prosperity's Christine Harbin writes that the Trump administration's "efforts in regulatory relief have not grabbed a lot of headlines in the media, but they have had significant impact in peeling back the regulatory state left over from President Barack Obama and prior administrations."


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