BIG BUS TOURS-HOP-ON HOP-OFF TOURS

Big Bus Welcome Center 7127th Ave. Between 47th & 48th St.

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FREE ENTRY WITH THE NEW YORK PASS **SAVE﹩59.00

Normal Entry Price: Adult﹩59.00

Normal Entry Price: Child﹩49.00

The open-top Big Bus sightseeing tour is the most enjoyable and convenient way to see New York! You’ll see famous landmarks such as the iconic Empire State Building to the new One World Trade Center. Throughout the tour, you can learn about the city’s history from our entertaining and informative live guides and recorded commentary. You can hop-on and hop-off at any of the Big Bus stops to explore and visit NYC’s tourist attractions such as the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The New York Pass grants you a free Classic Ticket valid (有效) for 1 day on the Uptown, Downtown & Midtown Loops. Tickets must be collected from one of the Big Bus Centers, and tickets cannot be issued on the bus. All tickets redeemed (补换) or purchased after 3 pm are extended into the next day.

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Downtown Loop has daily departures from 8 am to 5 pm from November to March and 8 am to 6 pm from April to October.

Uptown Loop has daily departures from 9 am to 5 pm from November to March and 9 am to 6 pm from April to October.

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Nate Ledoux flew all the way across the country to surprise his father Officer Duane Ledoux on his final day with the Southbridge Police Department.

A video shows Duane overcome with emotion when he makes his final radio call， known as a "final code five" on June 25 and the call is answered by his son.

"It is my sincere pleasure to announce that on this day， after 32.5 years of service， my father， Southbridge Police Officer Duane Ledoux， is retiring and has given his final code five，" Nate Ledoux says.

Nate continues： "It is my honor to acknowledge this code five， to set free a man who has sacrificed so much of his time for all of us， so that he may spend the rest of his life discovering new craft beer， exploring this beautiful country， and most importantly， chasing glory. "

"Dad， you are officially code five. "

Fighting back tears， Duane radios back： "Love you. "

The father shakes his head in disbelief， tapping the radio to his forehead.

"He did come home. He came home. I called that，" he says laughing.

In a second video on Facebook Live， Nate can be seen smiling as he sends his dad off.

Southbridge Police Chief Shane Woodson also thanked Ledoux for his more than three decades of service.

"After more than 31 years of service to the town of Southbridge， Officer Duane Ledoux badge 1041 is retiring and giving his final code five，" Woodson said over the radio.

"I wish you the best of luck on your future endeavors. Congratulations brother. "

Duane choked up as he thanked the department and his family， including Nate's brother Nick， who died years ago in a car accident.

"Too much to say， but thank you. To everyone in my family， everyone I've served with， and to my boys. Time to go home. Thank you，" he says.

Several years ago, the Woburn Safari Park in England admitted to killing many monkeys. The park said that it cost too much to continue to feed the monkeys, so the animals were shot and left to die. This is just one of the many cases in which animals are mistreated and murdered by humans.

Animals should be able to live life in natural environments without any negative influences by humans. The first reason zoos should be banned is that tyrannizing and murder are becoming more and more popular in zoos worldwide. In 2007, the IDA(In Defense of Animals) came out with a top ten list of the worst places for an elephant to go. All ten of the American zoos have had elephants die there, because of mistreatment, such as improper diet,   lack of exercise, and unsuitable living conditions.

Another example of mistreatment in zoos is illegal products made from animals. A tiger bone wine, banned in 1993, has been sold on the Chinese black market for several years now. Illegal trades like this are very easy because of the zoos. The third reason zoos should be illegal is that they can give visitors the wrong idea about animals. Animals will behave differently in the wild from how they will in a closed area. So, if someone came across an animal in the wild, they may think it is safe to approach the animal when it is not. People could easily get hurt.

Humans are animals too. What if animals got smart and decided to capture humans and put them in zoos? So in order to keep the circle of life and continue to have animals be a part of the world, humans must take basic steps to maintain the delicate balance between man and beast.

Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial （微生物的） life that existed and developed quickly on Earth billions of years ago， researchers reported on Monday.

In some locations， the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive， multicellular （多细胞的） animal such as a sponge （海绵动物）， they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences. "We discovered that brines-water with high concentrations of salt - on Mars can contain enough oxygen for microbes to breathe，" said lead author Vlada Stamenkovic， a theoretical physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "This fully revolutionizes our understanding of the potential for life on Mars， today and in the past. "

Up to now， it had been assumed that the trace （微量） amounts of oxygen on the Red Planet were insufficient to sustain even microbial life. "We never thought that oxygen could play a role for life on Mars due to its rarity in the atmosphere， about 0.14 percent，" Stamenkovic said. By comparison， the life-giving gas makes up 21 percent of the air we breathe.

On Earth， aerobic-that is， oxygen breathing -life-forms evolved （净化） together with photosynthesis （光合作用）， which converts CO2 into O2. The gas played a critical role in the existence of complex life， known after the so-called Great Oxygenation Event some 2.35 billion years ago.

But our planet also holds microbes -at the bottom of the ocean， in boiling hot springs -that live in environments lack of oxygen. "That's why -whenever we thought of life on Mars -we studied the potential for anaerobic （无氧的）life，" Stamenkovic said.