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...Canton, Hangkow, Tientsin, the cities along the coast and the villages near the invader. They moved from the fertile country of the northeast-10,000,000 of them-and from the southern and central coastal provinces-20,000,000 more. They walked 800 miles and more across the canyoned plateaus and jagged mountains and the plains, or poled sampans up the rivers when the tugs broke down, moved 77 colleges and universities inland and the machinery for 472 factories, to build a new China in the heart of Asia that had mothered Oriental civilization in its beginning 5,000 years...
Among the tools that help Chapin make TIME'S maps so different are (1) the air brush-a sort of highpower atomizer with which he sprays paint over his maps in an infinite number of shadings that give mountains and valleys and plateaus and river beds their three-dimensional height and depth ... (2) two large floating globes -one political, one physical-which are suspended from the ceiling by pulleys and counterweights in such a way that they can be turned, lowered and photographed from any angle. Maps in the new global perspective so important in air and naval strategy...
...electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching epilepsy, can even use them to locate surface brain tumors. Typical epilepsy pattern looks very much like a string of trylons and perispheres...
...mountain-girdled upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South. Below it lie the steaming jungles of Burma and French Indo-China, west of it lie the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, northwestward the desert plateaus of Turkestan (Sinkiang) and Mongolia...
That was all, but for one day it made a cataclysm in the barometric topography of the U. S. New England suddenly found itself at the bottom of an atmospheric abyss between two great plateaus (see map). The effect would hardly have been much more catastrophic had a new Grand Canyon of the Colorado suddenly opened in the Connecticut Valley...