Word: ruggedness
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By their second year, the students acquire an unmistakable rugged look, Dewis says.
"When I entered Deep Springs I was all about nature, beat poetry and rugged individualism," he says. "I was a hippie of sorts and I thought I'd find like minds at Deep Springs...but I did have my intellectual sloppiness challenged early on."
The mechanical grasshoppers are ideal for the mission, capable of flitting over rolling jungles at more than 100 m.p.h. They are about the only conveyance possible; roads and airports are scarce, and river travel is slow. Helicopters can survey the rugged Andean terrain for coca and poppy fields, for crude...
The Marines, always proud of their mud-and-blood traditions, will soon be tooling around in swank, new Mercedes-Benz sport-utes. The World War II-designed jeeps have finally worn out, and the Marines decided that the Mercedes Gelandewagen best meets its need for a rugged off-road vehicle...
The Marines, always proud of their mud-and-blood traditions, will soon be tooling around in swank, new Mercedes-Benz sport-utes. The World War II-designed jeeps have finally worn out, and the Marines decided that the Mercedes Gelandewagen best meets its need for a rugged off-road vehicle...