Word: expeditioners
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$380,000 Estimated cost in 1998 dollars of Lewis and Clark's expedition
As gods, we are cautious. We send the animals before us. The Soviets launched a dog called Laika on a Sputnik 2 space vehicle in 1957; in 1961 the Americans fired up a chimpanzee named Ham in a Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience...
[LIAISON DANGEREUSE] While leading a British expedition through the colony of New York, he spent his nights "singing, drinking, gambling and carousing with his mistress."
Hubbell held his ground, charging that Starr had overstepped his authority and packed the indictment with information gathered under an immunity deal. In a stinging opinion, Judge James Robertson dismissed all 10 counts against Hubbell, saying Starr was on a "quintessential fishing expedition" and had ignored Hubbell's right against...
U.S. District Judge James Robertson last week called Starr's tactics "really scary" and today's decision bore that out opinion. The judge ruled that Starr went on "a quintessential fishing expedition," using a tax case as leverage to get information from Hubbell about possible Whitewater hush money, trampled on...