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Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.

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NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

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