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During the climactic hours of the gulf war, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was briefing President Bush on the strategy of the ground assault. There was no map of the Middle East war zone readily available in the White House family quarters for Cheney to refer to. "Oh, I have a map," responded the President. He reached over and spread out the one appearing in that week's issue of TIME...
...families and neighborhoods reinforced the dogma of monoculturalism. In our heads, most of us '50s teenagers carried around a social map that was about as useful as the chart that guided Columbus to the "Indies." There were "Negroes," "whites" and "Orientals," the latter meaning Chinese and "Japs." Of religions, only three were known -- Protestant, Catholic and Jewish -- and not much was known about the last two types. The only remaining human categories were husbands and wives, and that was all the diversity the monocultural world could handle. Gays, lesbians, Buddhists, Muslims, Malaysians, Mormons, etc. were simply off the map...
...history, just as life was beginning to emerge from the sea. It may help explain the birth of the Pacific Ocean, and even point the way to valuable mineral deposits. Said co-author Ian Dalziel, from the University of Texas at Austin: "The theory gives us a new road map for the past 570 million years...
Some geologists, including Paul Hoffman, a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada, believe that the new map could point the way to valuable mineral discoveries. If the theory proves correct, silver, copper and zinc (all found in eastern Australia) should also turn up in northwestern Canada. But scientists caution that before anybody rushes out with a prospector's pick, research must confirm that the rocks in the Western U.S. are really related to those in eastern Antarctica. Dalziel estimates that this comparison should take no more than six months -- a short wait to clear up a mystery that...
Harvard has dropped Florida International and Eastern Illinois from last year's schedule, replacing them with Bowling Green, St. Thomas Aquinas, Manhattan and Cleveland State--the school Mouse McFadden put on the map. Little is known about any of these teams, but the common belief is that the Crimson should be competitive with these schools, since they've also just begun their seasons...