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PROBLEM: Minnie Mouse finally got  her  due on Monday afternoon   earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 40 years after  her  male counterpart   Mickey Mouse . Bob Iger   chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company   and " American Idol " judge Katy Perry were on - hand for the festivities and gave brief remarks about  Minnie Mouse  before  her  star was unveiled . Leron Gubler   the president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce   also declared Jan .  22 Minnie Mouse Day in Hollywood  . " I ' m so grateful and I want to thank all my friends from around the world . And Mickey   I ' m so happy you ' re here to share  this wonderful day  with me  "  Minnie Mouse  said . " This really is the best day ever !"  Minnie Mouse  first appeared in the 1928 film " Steamboat Willie " and since then   has been in more than 70 movies   Iger said . However   many Disney characters received stars before  she  did   including Donald Duck   Tinkerbelle   Winnie the Pooh   Snow White and Kermit the Frog . Speaking to Minnie Mouse ' s lengthy career in Hollywood   Iger called  her  " the official first lady of the Walt Disney Company " and said the honor was well - deserved . Walt Disney Family Foundation " Minnie can hold her own in any situation  " he said . " She ' s bopped more than one bully on the head and come to Mickey ' s rescue quite a few times !" Meanwhile   Perry   who wore polka dots in homage to Minnie Mouse   gushed over how nice it has been to visit with her at Disney parks around the world over the years . " It ' s always so comforting to see her face  " she said . " Seeing Minnie is like returning home . It is a special skill to bring joy to so many and she does it with an effortless bat of a lash ." Walt Disney Archives   Photo Library Disney is the parent company of ABC News .

SOLUTION: Minnie Mouse

PROBLEM: "This is a game changer " says  Thomas Garrison  an archaeologist at Ithaca College who is one of the leaders of the project . It changes "the base level at which we do Maya archaeology."
The data reveals that the area was three or four times more densely populated than originally thought. "I mean  we're talking about millions of people  conservatively " says  Garrison . "Probably more than 10 million people."
The researchers fired LiDAR technology  short for "Light Detection and Ranging " down at the dense forest from an airplane. This research was organized by the PACUNAM LiDAR Initiative  and  Garrison  says the area's size is "more than double any other survey that's been done with this technology."
"As it flies the laser pulses hundreds of thousands of times per second "  Garrison  adds. "And every time one of those lasers hits a point of resistance it stops and sends back a measurement to the plane."
toggle caption PACUNAM/Thomas Garrison
LiDAR allows scientists to accomplish years or even decades worth of mapping in a single afternoon. For example   Garrison  says  he  was part of a team that worked for some eight years to map less than a square mile at a site called El Zotz. The plane using LiDAR took data for 67 square miles in a matter of hours.
"It's very humbling " says  Garrison . "For those of us that spent our lives mapping and slogging around this area ... you just sort of have to bow before the LiDAR and accept the fact that it's better than you are."
The team surveyed 10 separate areas. It took months to process the data. As the picture became clearer   Garrison  said  he  would sent emails to  his  colleagues expressing surprise at the magnitude.
 He  recalls seeing an initial image of one area in northern Guatemala. "I saw this image and I said  the whole area is covered in Maya settlement. You won't believe it "  he  adds. "And then once we got the actual data and saw the whole scope of it. We said  'Wow  we're going to be able to really do something with this.'"

SOLUTION: Thomas Garrison

PROBLEM: American figure skater  Nathan Chen  has rallied from a fiasco of a short program with a historic free skate at the Pyeongchang Olympics that included an unparalleled six completed quadruple jumps.
 Chen  was guaranteed to rocket up the standings with a 297.35 total  perhaps into the top 10.
Vincent Zhou has been overshadowed during the Pyeongchang Olympics by teammates Adam Rippon and Nathan Chen.
But the youngest member of the U.S. figure skating team is smart and funny. And after a terrific short program   he  has a chance to finish in the top 10 at the Winter Games.
The openly gay Adam Rippon has become a media darling  combining excellent skating to help the U.S. win team bronze with an unfiltered approach to interviews.  The talented Nathan Chen  had been tipped as a gold medal favorite until everything went awry during  his  short program.
Together  they had held the spotlight until Zhou landed the first quad lutz in an Olympic event  and put together the best short program of  his  career to briefly take the lead.
 He  wound up 12th among 30 skaters  easily qualifying for the free skate.
American skater  Nathan Chen  is trying to bounce back from a dreadful performance that left  him  well out of medal contention.  His  teammates  Adam Rippon and Vincent Zhou  are also in action.

SOLUTION:
Nathan Chen