Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world were flat, the end of the earth would undoubtedly be French Guiana. A remote, jungle-shrouded patch on the northeast shoulder of South America, one-sixth the size of metropolitan France (see map), the colony is so stagnant that its population has increased by only 10,000 in 350 years, to its present total of 31,000 inhabitants. French Guiana's chief contributions to mankind so far have been one of history's most infamous prisons, Devil's Island, and the loan of the name of its sleepy capital, Cayenne, to a famous variety of pepper...
...writer and well-placed party intellectual, plotting escape to the West and caught up in the reptilian intrigues that are the implacable condition of life near the top of one-party dictatorships. But the central character is a friend of his, Sebastian lonescu, whose life provides a large-scale map of all the circles of Iron Curtain hell...
...Dietz's maps shows that the bridge would cast shadows varying from 20 ft. on June 21 to 65 ft. on Dec. 22. A note on the map adds, however, that these shadows would occur at 12:30 p.m., the "time of day when Palmer St. has not shadow from any building...
...know, no one-not even in the industry-has produced such a map of the U.S. pipeline network. And, considering the time, skill, care and cost involved, we're not surprised...
...natural gas that flow through this network (see map, over leaf) eventually turn turbines, heat buildings, power automobiles, and cook the food of the U.S. The whole process has produced a thriving pipeline industry...