Stranded American researcher evacuated from South Pole

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- After weeks of waiting, an American researcher who suffered a suspected stroke while working at the South Pole has arrived in New Zealand for evaluation and treatment, a National Science Foundation official confirmed Monday.

Renee-Nicole Douceur, 58, said in an interview on the "Early Show" on CBS that she was "feeling elated" to be off the Amundsen-Scott research station in Antarctica and in a hospital for an MRI and other tests that she hopes will reveal the cause of her vision, speech and other difficulties.

Douceur fell ill on August 27. She had been unable to leave to receive treatment because weather and storms prevent planes from landing during the region's winter period.

The U.S. Air Force C-17 carrying Douceur landed in Christchurch, New Zealand, at 9:55 p.m. Monday (2:55 a.m. ET), Deborah Wing of the National Science Foundation said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/world/south-pole-rescue/index.html

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1. Sorry she got sick, but glad that frontier scientist like her still put their lives on the line

for all of us.

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2. This sounds like an episode of "House".

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3. "Raytheon Polar Services, the company that runs the station for the National Science Foundation..."

I didn't know Raytheon is now in the polar science biz, I thought it was just in the war biz. Anything to get a government contract, right?