Word: mapped
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...Aristotle maintained that celestial objects were permanent, immutable and perfect. His notion so influenced Greek thought that when the astronomer Hipparchus spotted what seemed to be a new star in 134 B.C., he attributed his discovery to an omission by his predecessors. He also compiled the first accurate star map so that future sky watchers would be spared his dilemma...
...cold and silence of a New England winter forest is broken by the voices of a man and his two excited children. They pick their way along a meandering brook, pausing regularly to sweep aside branches or peer at compass and map. Near by, an elderly couple stride purposefully down a Jeep trail, jauntily swinging their arms and breathing deeply the crisp, fine air. Suddenly, a sweatsuit-clad figure crashes through the underbrush into a clearing. Panting from a hard run, mud dripping from his shoes, face scratched by brambles, he stares wildly about, then plunges into the thick brush...
...organizers lay out several courses, ranging from a mile-long hike over easy trails to six-mile scrambles across streams, swamps and hills. Contestants, either alone or in teams, leave the starting point at fixed intervals, moving through the quiet beauty of the forest toward unseen checkpoints marked by map coordinates. For many, it is just a "hike with a purpose," an opportunity to stroll or picnic. For others, it is a madcap race in which speed afoot is as important as accuracy of map reading. A fast runner might plot a lengthier indirect course over clear ground, whereas...
TIME Correspondent David Wood teamed with Expert Orienteer Hans Jurgen Luwald to measure his own speed and map-reading skills during the meet near Boston. His account...
...fragment clearly is a major addition to the Milton corpus, illuminating as it does with hitherto unparalleled clarity the personal dimension to Paradise Lost, showing how deeply rooted the poem is in Milton's own experience. The fragment also seems to confirm Harold Bloom's controversial claim in A Map of Misreading that Milton's "allusiveness introjects the past, and projects the future, but at the paradoxical cost of the present, which is not voided but is yielded up to an experiential darkness." The fragment is printed here for the first time, with spelling modernized...