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Recent News| Mongolia's leaders: Let's meet in the desert
GASHUUNII KHOOLOI, Mongolia — Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change.
The meeting of 12 government ministers was held in scorching heat Friday in Gashuunii Khooloi, a sandy valley in South Gobi province, about 415 miles south of Ulan-Bator, the country's capital.
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| Astronomers find star with up to 7 planets GENEVA — Scientists say they’ve identified a sun-like star with as many as seven different planets— including one that might be the smallest ever found outside the solar system.
If confirmed, the planetary system around HD 10180, a star more than 100 light years distant, would be the richest ever discovered. One astronomer says it’s part of a growing body of evidence that the universe is full of planets — and that a bunch of them could be similar to our own.
“The really nice thing about finding systems like this is that it shows that there are many more out there,” said Alan Boss, of the Washington-based Carnegie Institution for Science, who wasn’t involved with the find. “Mother Nature really had fun making planets.”
Although most of the planets identified are large — about 13 to 25 times the mass of our home — those behind the discovery, announced Tuesday at an international conference in France, say they’re nearly certain they’ve identified one only 1.4 times the size of Earth.
That would be the smallest planet ever spotted outside of those which orbit our own sun.
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| Hey! Bring back my cupcake truck PHILADELPHIA — A street vendor is feeling sour after Philadelphia officials confiscated her truck full of yellow, chocolate and red velvet cupcakes because she was parked in a prohibited area.
Kate Carrara says inspectors from the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections cornered her cupcake truck Tuesday in the University City neighborhood.
She says they gave her a violation for vending in a prohibited area. She says she thought she was in an allowable spot. She says they drove the truck away, leaving her on the street.
An online outcry ensued. Some of the truck’s 4,000 Twitter followers voiced their outrage over what they believed to be ham-fisted regulation enforcement.
Carrara says she paid $200 to get the truck back. She plans to skip University City for now.
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