"I was in Death Valley from 2007 to 2010, thinking, 'Maybe I lost it, '" he says.
He hosted, along with Ronald Reagan, episodes of "Death Valley Days" during the 1960s.
Barghoorn focussed on Australia, Cloud on Death Valley, others on China and Brazil, trailing graduate students behind them.
Sleekness, however, is likely not a primary concern for those descending into the depths of the Grand Canyon or traversing Death Valley.
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Temperatures in Death Valley have been known to reach a hundred and thirty degrees, and rainfall averages less than two inches a year.
Studies have shown that students who come from poorer communities like Death Valley have a lot to gain from attending a small school.
The highest temperature last month was recorded in Death Valley, Calif.
The one-room schools still left in America are mostly found in isolated places, where the natural world is the major factor in peoples' lives, like Death Valley, Calif.
Down the road from the park visitor center at Furnace Creek is Death Valley Elementary school, a flat-roofed building beside a dry streambed, which blends easily into the gray-brown landscape.
For example, scientists investigate the hyper-dry environments found in Antarctica (but there is still a lot of water, compared with Mars) or Death Valley (dry enough, but much hotter than Mars).
Most of the 500 people who live in Death Valley year round are connected in one way or another to Death Valley National Park and its major concessionaire, a company called Xanterra.
The phenomenon of sedimentary layers is remarkably similar to what is seen on Earth, in California's Death Valley or in Montana's Glacier National Park, says John Grotzinger, chief scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Johann Sebastian Joust in Death Valley!
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Late in the fall, during a rare lull in his work on the Mars program, Grotzinger and I took a drive to Death Valley due east from his house in lush San Marino, across the front range of the San Gabriels, past Apple Valley and Barstow, and down into the great basin of the Mojave.
Retailers, of course, that wandered under the shadow of the Valley of Death .
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Obama is about to walk through "the valley of death, " where candidates lose their way and are tested on an arid march.
The base is located in the strategic Pech River valley once dubbed the "Valley of Death" because mountain terrain allowed insurgents to stage deadly ambushes.
Traditional biomedical literature, as the place to discover the meaning of a new or unexpected finding, is rapidly approaching a Valley of Death .
There is a way out of the Valley of Death, however, but it will require both human doctors and technology to approach the problem differently.
Biotech executives dread what they call "the valley of death, " the period of time between a drug's conception in a lab and its first clinical trial.
"Pennsylvania Reserves at Plum Run" takes place on the evening of the second day and depicts the counterattack into the "Valley of Death" below Little Round Top.
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Experienced horseback riders will be guided to the mountain peaks of the Cordillera de la Sal to descend across the dunes towards the Valle de la Muerte (Valley of Death).
He talked about the "Valley of Death", which new companies have to go through as they try to find financing for their projects - on that, he hoped things were starting to get better.
It is meant to push companies out of the so-called valley of death where private equity or debt investors are reluctant to cover huge construction costs on unproven technology given the sluggish growth outlook for power demand.
Martin had entered what technology transfer officers refer to as the valley of death, the barren gulf between the basic science and a prototype good enough to pique the interest of an established company or a venture capital firm.
His predecessors and others in the field have long bemoaned the fact that so much British brilliance stumbles into the notorious "valley of death" that must be crossed for a new idea to make it to the market place.
But I can say that even at the dearth of -- even at the nadir of the valley of death, we never lost hope and we never lost our dream of reestablishing a sovereign state in our ancient homeland, the land of Israel.
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The 6th episode of our show is all about Operation Anaconda and is first-hand eyewitness accounts with combat footage that no-one has ever seen before, which is why in-house we refer to it as "Generation Y and the Valley of Death", this is the real thing.
But academic scientists aren't positioned to take the drug across the "valley of death" the chasm between a promising compound discovered in the lab and the work required to test it in humans, said Dr. Sawyers, who as an inventor of MDV3100 is entitled to royalties on any sales.
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