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...army and intelligence cadre; a treasury and a source of revenue; a civil service and even a rudimentary welfare system for the families of its fighters) but is borderless; it declares wars, makes alliances with other states and is global in scope but lacks a definable location on the map...
...every shuttle crew has to clean noseprints off their spacecraft's windows several times a day. An incredibly beautiful tapestry of blue and white, tan, black and green seems to glide beneath you at an elegant, stately pace. But you're actually going so fast that the entire map of the world spins before your eyes with each 90-minute orbit. After just one or two laps, you feel, maybe for the first time, like a citizen of a planet...
Sources for map Land use: NASA/Boston University department of Geography; urbanization: NASA Visible Earth City Lights; U.N. Population Fund, 2000; Amazon deforestation: ActGlobal.org/Instituto Socioambiental; coral reefs: World Resources Institute: Reefs at Risk; carbon-dioxide emissions: Energy information Administration; trouble spots: AP; U.N. Environment Program, Global Warming Early Warning Signs 1999; World Resources Institute...
Indian consumers are used to bombardment by splashy, sometimes cheeky advertisements, but tolerance has its limits. Citizens were outraged by the latest newspaper ad for Cadbury's chocolate, featuring a map of India with the state of Jammu and Kashmir?including disputed regions claimed by both India and Pakistan?stamped with the slogan "too good to share." Politicians condemned the campaign for trivializing a sensitive conflict that has cost thousands of lives and keeps the two nuclear-armed countries on the brink of war. "It just shows how multinationals will exploit anything for commercial purposes," complained Vinod Tawde, Bombay branch...
...that have compromised the Riviera's beauty forever. Kanigel's method is to rely on scores of diaries, letters and other records from visitors down the years. Tobias Smollett, a pugnacious British writer whose Travels through France and Italy became a best seller in 1766, put Nice on the map by depicting the lush beauty of the Med to rain-soaked readers back home. Almost as memorable are some of the eyewitness contributions by American fans of Nice. They range from 14-year-old Henrietta Maria Schroeder of Boston, who in the 19th century was refused entry to the nearby...