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...This puts us on the map," Reed said...
...laboratory, which has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for almost three decades, will also put Tallahassee on the scientific map, according to exuberant Florida educators...
...geopolitical map was being redrawn. China, the Soviet Union and the U.S. found themselves voting together on the Middle East, a subject that has bitterly divided them in the past. Moscow held open the possibility of joining a U.N. force against its ally Iraq. That could mean joint military action with the U.S., an unthinkable idea for the past 45 years. At the same time, the wider role that many in Washington would like to see NATO adopt got an unrehearsed trial run, with the U.S. relying heavily on Turkey to complete the economic asphyxiation of Iraq, its southeastern neighbor...
Taking a cue from Carroll, Keene read the map as a drawing of the British Isles with mirror images of towns outlined on opposite sides of a blank, gridless chessboard, which he took to be Ireland. Turning to the code, he concluded that WK meant white king, representing the police, that BQ (black queen) was the missing woman, and that BK (black king) was the suspect. Using these clues, Keene deduced that Theresa Terry must be buried in the Irish town of Limerick. His theory tallied with police discoveries that the suspect had hired a car and used credit cards...
...dozens of solutions. An Irish barrister suggested that HG referred to the Holy Ground public house in the St. John's area of Limerick, a desolate place ideally suited for the disposing of bodies. To complicate matters, William Hartston, the chess correspondent for the rival Independent, proposed that the map represented Continental Europe and that Terry's body had been thrown from a ferry in the Bay of Naples...