Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student at Princeton, he was convinced that it had been pockmarked not by explosive volcanism, as many geologists then thought, but by asteroid impacts. If that was true, he felt, Earth, a much larger target, must have been heavily bombarded too. For his Ph.D. thesis, Shoemaker prepared a & geologic map of Meteor Crater in Arizona, and in the process confirmed that it had resulted from an impact...
...Double Helix, his acclaimed account of his Nobel- prizewinning work. In the sequel, there may be some choice words about Bernadine Healy, his former boss at the National Institutes of Health. Disputes between the two helped lead to Watson's resignation as head of the mammoth project to map the human genome...
...Phillip, Longmuir delivers many one-liners to great comic effect. Occasionally his childlike wonder seems contrived, and several of his more emotional lines fall flat: "Now I know where I am," he says dopily, clutching the map of Philadelphia that Harold has given...
...PAIR OF WHITE ARKANSAS FIREMEN (Bill Paxton and William Sadler) accidentally come upon a treasure map. Its X marks a spot in a creepy, abandoned factory. As they root in the floorboards for gold, a gang of black drug dealers, whose leaders are played by rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube, turn up to use the place for a murder. Race, greed and venality on all sides soon lead to deadly conflict. There's something bracing about the utter amorality of TRESPASS. Director Walter Hill has something like a genius for staging and editing action in jolting bursts. The movie...
...single check-in and minimal airport delays. But British Airways withdrew its plan to invest $750 million in struggling USAir after U.S. Transportation Secretary Andrew Card vowed to reject the arrangement. Card balked at the partnership, which would have plugged USAir flights into British Airways' globe-spanning route map, after Britain refused to give U.S. carriers expanded use of London's Heathrow Airport...