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Man who accused voice of Elmo of underage sexual conduct recants

The man who accused Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of the “Sesame Street” character Elmo, of an underage sexual relationship has recanted, the New York Times reports.
Clash has taken a leave of absence from Sesame Workshop, the organization that produces “Sesame Street.”
Andreozzi & Associates, a law firm that said it represented the accuser said in a statement that “he wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship.”
 The statement added, “He will have no further comment on the matter.”
More from the Times here.

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Dead for 32,000 years, arctic plant is revived

The New York Times reports:

Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago.

Photo by Svetlana Yashina