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...China who had a vision of global education through global experience. Semester at Sea was first called "University Afloat." It has since been "University of the Seven Seas (1963-1967), "World Campus Afloat (1967-1970) and finally Semester at Sea (1970-present). It has been sponsored by Chapman College, University of Southern California and University of Colorado, respectively...
WRITER: MATTHEW CHAPMAN...
Gabriel has hardly been idle since So was released. In 1988 he joined Sting and Tracy Chapman on an Amnesty International tour. Two years ago, he created ^ the Real World record label to provide a vehicle for Third World musicians (some of whom appear on Us) and later composed the score for Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ. With the Reebok Foundation, he started the Witness program, which supplies video cameras to human rights groups in the hope that they will record violations...
...fourth edition of Roget's was published in 1977, but the English vocabulary has so ballooned since then that a fifth was necessary. At $16.95 for 325,000 words and phrases, the new Roget's is a bargain. Lexicographer Robert L. Chapman has revised and reordered many of Roget's 1,000 or so mainly abstract category headings (Existence, Relation, Quantity) and made them more accessible. To these he has added 31 new topics, including Fitness, Exercise, Substance Abuse, Space Travel, Computer Science and the Environment (listing more than 100 pollutants), though some of these are rearrangements and expansions derived...
...Chapman has further simplified the quest for the precise word by placing certain terms in useful vertical order, rather than running them in dense paragraphs. Thus about 150 manias, in riveting variety, are listed both by subject (railroad travel: siderodromomania; crossing bridges: gephyromania) and by name (trichorrhexomania: pinching off one's hair; typomania: writing for publication). Similarly organized is a catalog of more than 200 phobias, which only begins to suggest why psychiatrists will never lack for patients. Fear of the Pope is papaphobia; fear of failure, kakorraphiaphobia; fear of the flute, aulophobia...