Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the budget to send detectives around the country on a chase, Majeski had to track Abbott by telephone. He set up a command post in the basement of his Staten Island home. Using a nationwide network of law-enforcement contacts, he plotted Abbott's moves on a map of the U.S. Majeski's reading runs from works on psychology to Sherlock Holmes, and it served him well in his remote-control manhunt. So did In the Belly of the Beast. "All the clues to what he is, how he thinks, what he would do were...
Hubel and Wiesel have provided a road map of a small portion of that world. By measuring electrical impulses given off by the neurons of the visual cortex, the researchers discovered that the cells in the cortex are arranged in a regular pattern in columns organized into equally regular "hypercolumns." Each cell within each column, they discovered, has a specific responsibility to perceive and analyze incoming images according to contrast, linear patterns and movement on the retina. Within the columns, the analysis also occurs in a formal sequence. Eventually all this information is relayed to the higher centers...
...There are 135 major military-industrial plants in the U.S.S.R. The report contains an outline of a tank plant in Nizhni Tagil (pop. 400,000), 850 miles from Moscow. Superimposed over a map of Washington, the factory stretches from the Lincoln Memorial to Capitol Hill, a distance of more than two miles...
...overhead in bombing raids, drawing intense antiaircraft fire. One MiG-23, spewing smoke, crashed near Basra, inside Iraq. Huddled behind sandbags or in the ravaged interiors of buildings, the Iranians are conducting an incessant artillery duel with the enemy. Although Iraq held a long strip of Iranian territory (see map), the situation was different toward the north, where Iranian troops had penetrated some 18 miles into Iraq and surrounded the Kolus military base...
SOUTHERN COMFORT Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Michael Kane Walter Hill and David Giler Hip deep in a Louisiana swamp, the squad of National Guardsmen gets befuddled. According to the map, there shouldn't be a lake around here. But there is, and unless they steal some boats to cross it, they will not reach their objective in time. This they do, which riles the crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game...