Word: maps
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Thanks, too, for telling us about Playboy's response to The Crimson's high-minded snubbing: "[The Crimson] are our best PR people. In 1979 they put us on the map. They got us into Time magazine. That's why we started with Harvard first. They'll pave the way for us." (--David Chan, Playboy photographer, quoted in The Crimson on March 5). Yeah, you showed 'em, all right...
...Research Press was shipping copies of The Calov Bible of J.S. Bach, which reveals that markings on the pages of the Bible owned by Bach were made by the great composer. And in Washington, the journal Analytical Chemistry was reviewing for publication a report suggesting that the Vinland map, a purportedly pre-Columbian world map once denounced as a counterfeit, may not be fraudulent after...
Last year the Davis team persuaded Yale University, which owns the controversial Vinland map, to fly it to Davis, where it was subjected to the proton beam. The map, supposedly dating to around 1440, created a sensation when it was revealed in 1965 because it showed part of North America, labeled VINLANDA INSULA. It seemed to be the first cartographic evidence that Europeans had visited the continent before the time of Columbus. In 1974, however, some particles of ink from the map were found to be titanium-based. This meant, experts said, that the ink was of 20th century vintage...
Rarely has the global village had such a complicated road map. But last week's satellite hopscotching did emphasize the significant change that has overtaken the role of the network anchor. Once a deskbound newsreader, he is more and more becoming a super-reporter, traveling to major news stories and taking much of the network's news operations with him in a traveling road show of electronic gadgetry. Though none of the three evening news anchors went to the Philippines last week, NBC's Brokaw and ABC's Jennings were in the country three weeks earlier for the presidential elections...
Nowhere is Freeport, Maine. Until barely three years ago, Freeport was a sleepy New England town, a spot on a map just off the interstate with a post office, a gas station, and an ice cream store on Main Street. At that time, the town's only distinguishing feature was a world famous mail order company--the nation's only L.L. Bean store...