Word: mapped
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...map, the river is marked by a snaking blue line, somehow suggesting a broad rush of water. In reality, the Awali River of southern Lebanon is little more than a stream, no more than a dozen feet wide along much of its meandering course from Mount Barouk to the Mediterranean Sea. What makes the river significant, however, is not its size but the fact that its banks will mark a new military line once the Israeli army completes its partial withdrawal this fall. As such, the Awali has become the latest symbol of the fragmentation of Lebanon...
...Israeli military line will probably run eastward from the mouth of the Awali River, 17 miles south of Beirut, then fishhook north into the Bekaa Valley (see map). No withdrawal will take place on the eastern front, where Israeli troops face the Syrians. But by moving away from the Beirut suburbs and parts of the Chouf Mountains southeast of the city, the Israelis hope to avoid being trapped in any crossfire between the Lebanese Christian and Druze militias...
...fishermen's sweaters: knowledge and the overriding memories of good times. As one Rome-based American allows, "It's a great year to be in Europe, to be thin and to have dollars." And stamina. Never in peacetime have so many Yanks deployed themselves across the map of Europe in search of entertainment, uplift and, dammit, a good time. It may all prove a little too much for some. But England, as usual, has the answer. Its name is Ragdale Hall. A gracious old country manor in the midst of the rolling Leicestershire hunt country, it exists...
...Fuller, who never formally studied architecture, a gold medal for his contributions to the field. In the early 1930s he produced the three-wheeled Dymaxion automobile, which attained 120-m.p.h. speeds using a standard 90-h.p. engine. The car was never manufactured commercially. After that, he invented the Dymaxion map, the first to show continents on a flat surface without distortion...
...Map of the World by David Hare. More games, of the highest, most perplexing order. In 1976, at a UNESCO congress in Bombay, wealthy nations trade with poor ones: our money for your dignity. Soon another contest is under way. Victor Mehta (Roshan Seth), an Indian novelist similar to V.S. Naipaul, debates Stephen Andrews (Bill Nighy), a young left-wing journalist, on the subject of an author's responsibility to the Third World objects of his satire. The prize: a pretty American actress, Peggy Whitton (Diana Quick). Believe who will. Why would a novelist of declared hostility...