Word: antarctica
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...Dean Joseph S. Nye says that KSG alumni represent over 130 nations on all of the continents except Antarctica...
They don't get a lot of news in Antarctica. It's the only place where mothers will allow their daughters to be introduced to President Clinton. --Marc DeCarlo...
...CHILL Bill Clinton plans to fulfill a lifelong dream by traveling to Antarctica this year, thus becoming the first President to visit the chilly continent. When we heard this, we called comedians for a Clinton-in-Antarctica joke...
...month we'd been climbing and exploring in this corner of Antarctica. To visit such a wilderness in the waning moments of the 20th century struck us as a rare and fleeting privilege--an incredible stroke of good luck. Keeping this firmly in mind, we went to extraordinary lengths to minimize our impact on the place so that others would find it in a similarly pristine condition. When we departed, we even packed out our accumulated feces. I couldn't help thinking, however, that 100 years in the future, or even 50, a genuine wilderness experience will probably be hard...
...remote places like Antarctica still exist as true wilderness: the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic, pockets of the Mato Grosso bush in central Brazil, bits of the Tibetan Plateau. Much of this wilderness is so huge and empty and emphatically inhospitable that it is difficult to picture its ever succumbing to the crush of civilization. But the same could have been said of the Grand Canyon in 1869, when John Wesley Powell braved murderous rapids and myriad other hazards to become the first man to navigate the Colorado River...