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...today's world map looks like a conglomerate glob of silly putty, smashed by a hammer and stuck together again, it is because the new nations are in large part literally and lineally the heirs of their colonial history. Physically, they are artifacts of 19th century imperialism's division of the spoils, confined within arbitrary frontiers contrived by colonial mapmakers. Psychologically, they are the heirs of Europe's own fierce nationalism, which fueled the race for empire. As 19th century British Philosopher Walter Bagehot observed, political man is a highly imitative animal. The subjugated peoples...
Volunteers whose assignments overseas call for strenuous physical conditioning are given additional training for outdoor living which may include hiking, rock-climbing, swimming and map reading. Proficiency in these activities, however, is not required. While such training was recommended for future community development workers in the mountains of Chile, for example, it would not necessarily be required for someone planning to teach English in an urban setting...
Developed two years ago by Howard T. Fisher, director of the new Laboratory for Computer Graphics, the technique is being used at other universities for work in climatology, oceanography, and oil geology. Harvard, Fisher said, is in the forefront of computerized map-making as applied to urban planning...
With the new technique, the researcher will direct the computer to print a "base map" of the region under study. When the relevant data is fed into the machine, it is automatically displayed on the "base map...
Next year the Laboratory for Computer Graphics hopes to produce maps of many different varieties, including a map of the world displaying economic data, and a map showing the spread of infection in the human body, Fisher concluded...