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...Navigator, introduced last year by Etak, a Menlo Park, Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...
...pressing issues of public health, she says, "We're thinking of having Katharine Hamnett condoms, like peppermints, in the shops." She is also making boxer shorts with special condom pockets, while Bertelsen, wary of a "campaign about AIDS," worries about her "going too far." That, of course, is the compass point at which Hamnett is perpetually fixed. She has, indeed, come up with a new T shirt for these dire days (frankie says use condoms), but confesses that she did have to compromise a bit. "I wanted to do the pope says use condoms," she says. "But it is libelous...
Less gymnastic and acrobatic than pairs skating, ice dancing, which bears more than a passing resemblance to ballroom dancing, works its wonders within a smaller compass. It allows no high lifts, for example, and spins are limited to 1 1/2 turns. "The difference is like that between poetry and prose," says Dick Button, the American skating impresario and Olympic figure-skating star. "They are two different disciplines. Both can be beautiful...
...neither recent nor the product of Cambridge conceit. It is part of a legacy from President Charles Eliot, who, starting in 1869, remade Harvard with a new emphasis on research and graduate study, and, among his faculty, strongly encouraged these scholarly pursuits. At Harvard, as at other institutions, the compass needles of many ambitious academics swung toward research. One result is that complaints about poor undergraduate teaching, lofty and inaccessible scholars, huge impersonal survey courses and cold university bureaucracies are heard on campuses from Maine to California. Like Harvard, most institutions of higher learning are wrestling with the question...
...even a Bostonian can give directions for driving from North Beacon Street to Davis Square in Somerville, but by replacing street names in the head with points of the compass, it can be done...