Word: mapped
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Like many New Yorkers, Sennett sometimes fails to put the city in context. Non-urban areas are blank spaces on his world map, merely waiting to be filled in by the encroaching grid. The city is never presented as an alternative location among many. Sennett's arguments would have been strengthened, for example, had he considered the role of the wilderness as the accepted zone for today's spiritual quests. Surely the modern citydweller's solitary journey to the mountains or the ocean in search of meaning and fulfillment is in a fundamental way a pessimistic, escapist denial...
...Layzer isn't merely a distant planner. In fact, he visits each section of each course he teaches as many as three times during the semester. Upon entering a class, Layzer typically asks one of the section leaders for a map of the room, complete with the name of every student in the class...
Most Americans focused on products and services delivering news and information about the gulf. In Maplewood, N.J., the Hammond map company was working to fill 70,000 orders for a Middle East Crisis map published in October. Cable-TV companies have enjoyed a surge in business too, largely because many viewers suddenly feel they must have CNN. Travel agents reported that customers were demanding hotels with cable TV. Said Michael Arrington, chairman of a chain of travel agencies based in Chicago: "Getting away from it all is no longer a draw...
Whatever Saddam is saving his planes for, they are not a factor in the battle now. Many may be unable to take off because runways they might use have been bombed full of craters. Powell displayed a map showing only five of 66 airfields at which the U.S. spotted any activity last week. When the Iraqi planes do fly, their performance in dogfighting is miserable. Last Friday two Iraqi jets tried to stage an attack with Exocet missiles on British ships in the Persian Gulf; a Saudi pilot shot down both. In any case, the U.S. and Britain claim...
...brings in more people within three or four years Harvard would be back on the map," Princeton's Rampersad says. "His presence alone won't be enough, but if he can make certain appointments, Harvard would be an envious place...