Word: mapped
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...find that they "once lived in what is now Liberia and Nigeria. "First, the Yoruba continue to live in Nigeria, and from all accounts, the culture is showing no signs of extinction. Second, the Yoruba never lived in Liberia, and if one were so bold as to check a map of the Africa Continent, one would find that these two countries are separated by four others--Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and the Republic of Benin--and more than 1,000 miles. As far as we know, no single Sub-Saharan African culture ever covered so vast an area...
...Vietnam is still with us. A politician's war record--or antiwar record--evokes scorn or approbation; the masterfully manipulative Forrest Gump makes adults weep; we fret over quagmires, and still we can hear the air torn by helicopter blades and see that canted, top-heavy map on the evening news and recall precisely our draft-lottery number or that of our brother or son. Some brothers and sons did not return; they are still with us as well...
...Then I got a parking ticket and took care of that. I walked back and got lost on the way to Byerly. I was just looking around, trying to figure out which way the map was facing," Rovira added...
Mack says he sees himself as pioneering a newterritory in psychology. "This was not supposed tobe a formal research study," he says. "I felt likeI was in the tradition of Freud and Jung andErikson and others who were trying to map out anewdomain of human experience...
...could not be reached for comment yesterday, "is interested in 16th-century French literature and its relation to the graphic imagination," said Mary M. Gaylord, the chair of the Romance Languages and Literatures Department. She said he will probably teach classes in 16th-century literature, modern film and map-making...