Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Confiscated in a drug raid on Maui, Hawaii, three years ago, the handmade map with hieroglyphic scrawls looked like something out of Treasure Island. Once Drug Enforcement Administration agents deciphered it, however, the map and subsequent tips led to treasures beyond the dreams of Long John Silver. Investigators turned up 982 rare gold coins buried in hard-to-reach holes from Hawaii to Colorado. Officials expect the coins to bring $2 million or more in auctions that begin next week in Long Beach, Calif...
...most valuable discovery: a 1933 $10 eagle gold piece now worth $80,000 or more. The map, said the DEA last week, turned up in the home of a wind- surfing drug merchant known as "Colorado Bill" and "King Midas." Bill (the DEA is withholding his full name) can follow the auction from his cell in Lompoc, Calif., where he is doing 17 years for drug trafficking...
...face, the program looked good. Modeled on a highly-successful national newspaper, the show boasted great graphics and a computer-generated nightly weather map that would make the American Meteorological Association blush with pride. Add this to a sharp team of anchors, including rising star Kenneth Walker, formerly...
This year's state redistricting gave Graham's 28th Middlesex County district a plausible shape, to replace something that looked on the map like a lizard with a broken neck. It no longer includes the Radcliffe Quad, but it does contain the river houses in Ward...
...shortage of students in science and engineering. At the dawn of a new era of international competition, less than one-quarter of public high school students are currently enrolled in a foreign-language course. The bulk of American students cannot locate the world's most important nations on a map if their lives depend on it, which, in a sense, they...