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　　"We're just very carefully pulling these apart because we're collecting data," she explains to the students. "We're collecting information on what the owl ate." At first, some of the young scientists are hesitant. But within minutes, they're riveted. Seven-year- wholesale coach bagsolds Gracie Stahura and Sophia Husack lean over their prize - the tiny skeletal remains of a tiny rodent called a vole."Do you see those teeth? It's so cool. I never knew about the pellets. We have a big yard and there's woods all around us and I'm going to look under the trees - so if I find them I'm going to get some toothpicks and open it." Purcell looks over at the girls' table and beams. Her young students are excited by their scientific discoveries. Mission accomplished. When you hear the words "adventure travel," perhaps you think of Venetian merchant Marco Polo, the distinguished African explorer David Livingstone, or North Pole adventurer Robert Peary.

　　Nowadays, it conjures up images of muscular guys mushing sled dogs to victory in Alaska's Iditarod race, or tethered to bungee cords and jumping off bridges into canyons. MEN exploring and climbing, mushing and jumping. But dozens of women have climbed Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak. Others have mapped continents and commanded space flights. Two hundred or so years ago, wholesale coach handbagsit was a Native American woman who guided the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their journey of discovery through the Pacific Northwest.Just last year, British ocean rower Roz Savage became the first woman to cross the Pacific Ocean alone, in a rowboat. That's especially critical at a time when American teachers are under increasing pressure to fit more standardized instruction into their school day. Science educators say that, too often, the hands-on study of natural sciences can get short-changed.Four Winds currently has 1,500 volunteers working in four northeastern states. Shrewsbury resident Connie Youngstrom is one of them.