Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schoolchild looking at the outlines of South America and Africa on the world map may intuitively fit the puzzle together, and behold -- the principle of continental drift...
...studying a cultural map of the world would make the mistake of thinking Japan and the U.S. once came from the same place. The two belong almost to different universes. Each is the other's antiworld: Japan an exclusive, homogeneous Asian ocean-and-island realm, tribal, intricately compact, suppressive, fiercely focused; and the U.S. a giant of huge distances, expansive, messy, inclusive, wasteful, rich, individualist, multicultural, chaotically diverse...
Georgi says he hopes the research done at the SSC will be revolutionary. "[Physicists] will struggle to find landmarks in a new and completely uncharted region of our map," he says...
...map above registers some of the recent revisions in former Soviet names. But with 15 independent states all rushing to reclaim their national heritage, this is probably not the last word on the subject...
...seems to be faltering, and talk of moving the central functions of government to Minsk is dying out. Perhaps disagreements among the various republics are proving too great for any form of union. Perhaps Minsk was just a tactical bluff all along. Or perhaps someone has looked at a map, thought about Chekhov's three sisters yearning for Moscow, and decided that life in Minsk is too high a price to pay for a rhetorical flourish...