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Michael Dabin Manhattanites enjoy a leisurely weekend morning at Hudson River Park. A smokers’ rights group wants to snuff out the ban on smoking in New York’s Hudson River Park. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, CLASH — Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment — alleges the trust that runs the 550-acre park exceeded its authority when it banned smoking ...

Water flows freely on the surface of Mars. Wait, what? In recent months, NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed that Mars, millions of years ago, used to be covered in free-flowing rivers. According to some new imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and analysis by Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, however, it appears that water still flows on the ...