Word: expeditioners
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Thomson was so affected by what he saw on Cape York that the following year, when the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three whites at Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite...
For last Tuesday’s launch, The Network hired Alison Levine, team leader of the first U.S. All-Woman’s Mt. Everest Expedition, to present as its keynote speaker.
The weather, in fact, is well below freezing at all times, necessitating a mitten run, a hot-chocolate expedition and more than a few temporary trips to warm up in the waiting van while one or two volunteers remain outside.
Yet there are vital differences between Lewis and Clark's expedition and a Mars mission. First, Lewis and Clark were headed to a place amenable to life; hundreds of thousands of people were already living there. Second, Lewis and Clark were certain to discover places and things of immediate value...
Space-exploration proponents deride as lack of vision the mention of technical barriers or the insistence that needs on Earth come first. Not so. The former is rationality, the latter the setting of priorities. If Mars proponents want to raise $600 billion privately and stage their own expedition, more power...