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Better Than Shadows. For Chief Cartographer Albert L. Nowicki of the Army Map Service, the traditional method of measuring lunar mountains by their shadows is not accurate enough. It works well only in the center of the moon's visible disk; off toward the edges it fades into uselessness. So the Army has turned to stereo photo-mapping in order to take advantage of the fact that the moon wobbles slightly but predictably at intervals of 3½ to seven years as it orbits the earth. This means that pictures taken of the moon at different times are like...
...intricate calculation they were able to deduce lunar elevations from slight differences in matched pairs of photographs. Only a few years ago the job would have taken too long to be practical, but the Army's Honeywell computer raced headlong through thousands of bristling equations. Gradually the map of the moon's visible disk, which has just about the same area as North America, filled with measured mountains and crater rims...
What part of the world has the fastest growing population? Not India and not Communist China. The population explosion is strongest in tropical South America-a 5,300,000-sq.-mi. area encompassing Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and the three Guianas, British, Dutch and French (see map). According to the Population Reference Bureau, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., these nine countries are growing at an average rate of 3.2% each year, compared with about 2% for India and Red China. At cur rent rates, their 121 million population will double by 1986; in 100 years...
Faulkner set 15 of his 19 novels in Yoknapatawpha County. He drew its map, crisscrossed its landscape in his stories, plotted the intricate genealogies of some of its families for four and five generations, told and retold its legends, and searched out its history back to its original Indian inhabitants...
Abandoned emerges as an erratic but deeply affecting work by an artist able to project a commonplace theme with blinding brio. Germi leavens his anger with compassion, lightens compassion with humor. And one pointed vignette embodies all three: a hard-pressed chief of the carabinieri, studying a wall map of Italy, impulsively flattens his palm over the entire island of Sicily and utters a long, long sigh...