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That wo n't prevent 100 percent of accidents , but it can mitigate the ones that are avoidable . I was trying to apologize , and he had a far-off look on his face like he was never going to talk to me again . People all over the world struggle to preserve their traditions , which are often connected to animals : the Masai to the lion , the Tibetans to the snow leopard , and the Inuit people to the polar bear . " And what I feel is pride , intense pride , that a young person in our community has the stuff of which heroes are made . It was obvious from the relaxed atmosphere that the men in the room had been expecting another man . The room was located on the ground floor of the Westerner Motel , three doors down from the ice and vending machines . My most memorable bout with fear and panic came long ago , when I was training to become a cave diver . Here are Sufi dervishes in white with long beards and shoulder-length hair . Usually I 'm about an hour into a search like that and I have to shake my head and think , Two hours ago I was going to be having dinner with my girlfriend and now I 'm in the middle of the backcountry and it 's dark and I 'm looking for somebody . This shoreline is at once sewer , sink , and cemetery for the surrounding villagers , and my tired legs are caked to the thigh in indeterminate river yuck . A marriage project that tied up all the small pleasant nuptial gossip-items about bridesmaids and honeymoon and recalcitrant aunts and so forth , for an indefinite number of years seemed scarcely decent in his eyes , and there was little satisfaction or importance to be derived from early and special knowledge of an event which loomed as far distant as a Presidential Election or a change of Viceroy . As newborns , polar bear cubs are about the same size as a loaf of bread and weigh about a pound ( .37 kilograms ) . It does n't need advertising that instructs it to want new things , it needs to be told how to get what it already wants . Lying in a puddle under a picnic table , wet from head to toe in a sopping sleeping bag , with thunder crackling about and sheets of rain pummeling my thin plastic poncho , I was beginning to question the whole fastpacking concept . Our island is two miles [ 3.2 kilometers ] long and half a mile [ 0.8 kilometer ] wide . As the visit unfolds Daphne turns out to be less than perfect , after all — something of a prima donna , in fact . The aye-aye 's bad reputation is n't helped by the fact that it 's active only at night , when things can seem a lot scarier to people . A local man , whom we paid to guide us for the day , points guiltily to a hillside pockmarked with holes : the site of a looted Bronze Age grave site.There are scores of them in this region , a place that was unmapped and unexplored well into the 20th century due to the ferocity of local tribes who had a reputation for killing any outsiders they encountered . Finally we managed to get on board the freighter , which turned out to be Russian , and they dropped us off with the Coast Guard . " This is the kind of government that I am proud of , " he said . Under a grant from the National Geographic Expeditions Council , I've arrived in Tehran at a time when the United Nations Security Council is attempting to entice Iran with economic incentives to discontinue its nuclear program .