Word: expeditioners
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From that initial miscalculation, the Chechnya expedition became a long journey of blunders and contradictions. The advice of military and intelligence chiefs close to Yeltsin, beginning with Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, was foolishly optimistic. In the early stages, Grachev, an arrogant airborne commander, boasted that a regiment of paratroops could...
The francophone says he is currently organizing an expedition over the south Pacific to study what he says is "probably the cleanest place in the world, a place where no one has been."
"Expedition life is not as glorious as it is thought to be," Mayr says. "It is strenuous and dangerous, with malaria and dysentery. I wanted to go home and get published."
To complete their study, Wennberg and Anderson flew instruments in a converted U-2 spy plane 20 kilometers (70,000 feet) above the earth's surface. Taking part in the Stratospheric Photo chemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition [SPADE], the researchers were able to make many measurements simultaneously. This procedure is...
All these issues -- bipedalism, the forest-dwelling theory, the question of how high ramidus sits in the evolutionary tree -- can be settled only with more fieldwork. The team is returning to Ethiopia next month, to the site, hoping to find parts of other skeletons and uncover more clues about the...