Word: maps
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...astronomy's ignorance is rapidly being dispelled, thanks in large part to two researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Since 1985, Margaret Geller and John Huchra have been meticulously crafting a three-dimensional map that charts the positions of thousands of galaxies. Last week, in the journal Science, they presented their latest map of one small chunk of the visible universe, and the findings are startling...
...That is a painful matter. I always have this map with me. ((He shows map with U.S. bases encircling the Soviet Union.)) This is the way the U.S. has surrounded the Soviet Union; more than half a million American troops and aircraft are deployed there. The system was shaped at the end of the 1940s and 1950s and has its own history, but nowadays there are no grounds to have bases that threaten us. It is time that the U.S. think it over. In a number of countries, troops are deployed because of the results of World...
...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...
Zaire is an artificial political entity. Its borders were decided arbitrarily on some Belgian map a century ago. Within those borders are over 250 potentially warlike tribes...
...deeply involved. A Muslim officer who fought under Aoun stated that both Druze and Syrian forces advanced on Suq al Gharb, then turned back under heavy Christian fire, leaving 35 dead Syrians behind. In Damascus, Syrian President Hafez Assad convened representatives of various Muslim, Druze and Palestinian militias to map out a combat plan to topple Aoun. The war council aroused international concern that Syria, which has upwards of 30,000 troops inside Lebanon, might be preparing to invade the 300-sq.-mi. Christian enclave. Despite the evident danger, none of the combatants seem willing to back down. Syria stated...