Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible that almost two-thirds of Americans 18 to 24 cannot point to France on an outline map? That 75% of adult Americans are unable to locate the Persian Gulf, where 39 American sailors have died in the past two years? That a few put the U.S. inside Australia or Botswana...
...Mount Snow Mountain Bike School in Vermont teaches cyclists how to negotiate the loose gravel, mud surfaces and obstacles of mountain paths, as well as offering lessons in map reading and bike maintenance. "I thought I was just going for a bike ride on back roads in New England," says Connecticut Insurance Consultant Karen Daly, 29. "They teach you how to jump logs, and we rode through a ski trail with grass up to your waist, wildflowers...
...Congress, senators and representatives debate the fine points of giving aid to the contras (the ones fighting in Nicaragua, that is). Meanwhile, their constituents are hard-pressed even to identify the strife-torn Latin American country on a map, never mind explain what the U.S. government's policy is toward the contras...
...system produces geographical--and political and scientific--illiterates, elected officials become much less accountable to their constituents and much more liable to take reckless foreign policy stances. While President Reagan and his administration were trading arms for hostages in Iran, most Americans were unable to locate Iran on a map...
...will take much more than an "Education President" to revitalize a system of education that produces 18-year-old high school graduates who don't know where to find the U.S.--or the Soviet Union, Japan, Canada, France, Mexico and South Africa--on a map...