The team endured a punishing trek, up and down whitewater rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers.
Whatever the issue in the news the Whitewater shenanigans, or Switzerland and Jewish money or, this week, the president's first use of his "line-item veto" against a tax break for New York Al D'Amato will be there.
You learned very soon how to read a clear line before the put-in, then how to swerve and carve the whitewater, avoiding holes, trying not to be rag-dolled by the flow.
And he was seeing them not from dry land but from the midst of churning whitewater, as he paddled his kayak through the rapids and the rocks.
They know that ambling through the countryside on a weekend afternoon carries an intolerable opportunity cost: the time could be so much better spent on greater things, such as whitewater canoeing or off-road biking.
Motoring, hiking, camping, fishing, skiing, whitewater rafting, and spelunking are encouraged throughout the Appalachians, as are visits to numerous craft centres and historic sites.
The electric eel is one of the principal aquatic predators of the whitewater flooded forest known as varzea.
Similarly, she did not relish appointing an independent counsel to investigate the Clintons' role in Whitewater, nor three others to pursue cabinet members accused of various crimes.
He promised that the expected budget surplus would be used, first, to shore up the Social Security (pensions) system.The case of Monica Lewinsky, who alleges a sexual relationship with the president, remained stalled as she continued to bargain for immunity with the Whitewater special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr.
On Capitol Hill, politicians are engaged in an investigative orgy not seen since Whitewater, with the blame pinned variously on the company's managers, its directors, its auditors and its bankers, as well as on the Bush administration; indeed on anybody except the hundreds of congressmen who queued up to take campaign cash from Enron.
