Indeed, for many countries, nomads recast as intrepid entrepreneurs could be the key to securing a prosperous future.

There are many intrepid travelers in the region, many of them brave enough to explore any terrain or climate.

Historically, sovereign lending was a job for a few intrepid financiers, who drove shrewd bargains and were adept at statecraft.

The Internet is transforming the way maps are made, enabling ordinary people dubbed citizen cartographers to work alongside intrepid adventurers and professional geographers.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA Noé Diakubama, an emigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in Paris, is one of this century s intrepid pioneers.

I have been basically spending the last few years documenting the efforts of some extremely intrepid men and women who are putting, literally at times, their lives at stake working in some very remote and very hostile places so that they may gather the faintest signals from the cosmos in order for us to understand this universe.