Hasty inquiries uncovered only a single source of liquid nitrogen in the entire country, but the facility was no longer functioning. Just when things looked utterly hopeless, one of the Cameroonian scientists who had accompanied Donelson into the field salvaged the situation. After several days of negotiation, Donelson's colleague talked the owner of the facility into making enough repairs to produce a few liters of liquid nitrogen. This amount proved sufficient to see Donelson through to the end of the expedition and to transport the specimens back to the United States for further study.
With the war in the Persian Gulf intensifying United States citizens' fears of terrorism while traveling abroad, scientists should remember that performing research in certain parts of the world can entail a degree of danger. Of course, the entire Third World is not a uniform hotbed of unrest and violence, although it is sometimes portrayed otherwise. ...
