Word: mapped
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CREDIT: TIME Map Designed by Nigel Holmes...
Today we are confronted with a Stalinist map of the country, and have used it as the basis for carrying out perestroika, accepting this unified landmass as a historic entity. Our tensions spring from an inadequate understanding of a most crucial fact: the U.S.S.R. is not a country, nor is it a state. The Eurasian territory that is marked as such on the maps is a world of worlds made of different cultures and civilizations. It is a neighborhood of states and nations that are tired of their colonial and colonizing past, that have been tortured and humiliated by Stalinist...
...world's ocean depths are already giant audio studios for the U.S. and the Soviets. Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations. Both meticulously map the crucial topography of the ocean bottom. Both continually analyze the thermoclines, or pockets of differing underwater temperature, that deflect and distort sound waves...
...million pebbles will be encased in rectangular plexiglass columns, standing on a map of Eastern Europe and enclosed by barbed wire. The pebbles in each column will represent the number of Jews slaughtered in each East European country by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The whole scene will be displayed during Brandeis University's Holocaust Rememberance Week, April 19 to 25, in an area between Brandeis' library and student center...
...Mandela and De Klerk will be to keep their critics at bay as they speed toward negotiations. In the euphoria over Mandela's release, expectations threaten to run unreasonably high and trigger a disappointment that will result in violence. Even once all parties come to the table, no road map exists for South Africa's future. No one has put forward a formula that satisfactorily reconciles black demands for one person, one vote with white fears of being dominated -- or tyrannized -- by a black majority...