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DIED. ARTHUR ROBINSON, 89, cartographer whose work dramatically improved the way the world looks on maps; in Madison, Wis. Mapmakers had long struggled with the problem of representing the round Earth on a flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...
...heart that America isn't really the place for us, that perhaps we belong somewhere else, in a country where good people live. There are parts of the U.S. where I now know I could not live, not because of the red or blue color on the electoral map but because of the narrowness of the residents' minds and the darkness of their hearts. Might not we be better off as two separate nations than as one in which half of us are forced to accept the will of the other half? Larry Herbst Pasadena...
BATTLE PLAN: Our map shows how the U.S. is taking the city...
...heart that America isn't really the place for us, that perhaps we belong somewhere else, in a country where good people live. There are parts of the U.S. where I now know I could not live, not because of the red or blue color on the electoral map but because of the narrowness of the residents' minds and the darkness of their hearts. Might we not be better off as two separate nations than as one in which half of us are forced to accept the will of the other half? LARRY HERBST Pasadena, Calif...
Here Democrats can find a map of North America from their perspective: Kerry's coastal voters join "the United States of Canada," as Bush's red block becomes "Jesusland." The graphic is plastered on everything from lunch boxes to doggie T shirts at www.cafepress.com...