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...Maps are practically obsolete. For explorers, maps came in handy for charting a course through unknown lands and letting the traveler know where he was along the way. The map was a decoding device, a conceptual bridge that matched the mental “Where am I?” to the specific attributes of a physical landscape. It was also a way of creating a personal record of a journey—memory inscribed in rivers and mountain ranges. But these days, maps are pass?...
...know maps are becoming obsolete because we’ve started framing them and hanging them on museum walls. And if there’s anything Marcel Duchamp taught us, it’s that as soon as you stick something in a museum, it becomes art. I myself have got a lovely piece sticky-gummed to the wall above my bed. It’s a big map of the Grand Canyon—a satellite photograph with roads and cities superimposed in enhanced colors. It would be completely useless as a navigational tool, but it?...
...they collaborated on a CD. "Sinjie was 20, I was 30 and Sylvia was about 40," says Liu. "So I decided the name should be 20:30:40. While searching for a record producer, Chang hit upon the idea of making a movie of the same name that would map out the three decades she calls "a woman's golden ages." "I said no, no, no, that's too big for us," says Liu. "But Sylvia said she could take care...
...Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a trip to Cairo , secured assurances that Egypt would secure its border with Gaza if Israel pulled out. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat gave guarded support to the plan, on the condition that it be carried out within the framework of the U.S.-sponsored road map to peace. A first meeting between Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is expected to take place this week. Judging the Judges SERBIA The trial of six Serbs indicted for killing 192 Croat prisoners of war in 1991 opened in Belgrade . The first case to be heard...
...butterfly style on the map,” Danis said. “I went to his school for two years, back...