Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street dealmakers, speculator Salim ("Sandy") Lewis stood out as a talkaholic with a penchant for dispensing advice and hatching colorful schemes. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan charged Lewis with manipulating stock in an apparent attempt to help out American Express and its chairman, James Robinson, a longtime Lewis friend...
...reporting error, several names in yesterday's sailing story were misspelled. The names should read: Liz Graham, Betsey Robinson, Caitlin Murray, George Eberstadt, Gordon Burnes and George Nathan...
Most mapmakers devise projections with mathematics -- and nowadays the computer. But Robinson, who is considered the dean of U.S. cartographers, decided to take a different approach. "Mapmaking is as much an art form as a science," he argues. Thus he began by visualizing the way each country ought to look on a map, then turned to mathematics to delineate its shape. "What I really did," says Robinson, "was create a portrait of the earth...
...distortions in his map, both at the equator and at the poles, depending upon the distance from 38 degrees north or 38 degrees south, which he chose as his standard parallels. "Only at these latitudes are the size and shape relationships accurate, as they are on the globe," says Robinson. To convey a sense of roundness, the map has been given curved sides. The Geographic Society's new map, like its predecessor, is centered on Europe, in part because focusing on the U.S. would divide the Asian landmass. The result, declares Garver, is "the best balance available between geography...
...Robinson's map, though bound to be widely adopted, is unlikely to end the bitter disputes that map-makers have waged for centuries. Inevitably, specialized maps will offer other perspectives and schemes, including polar shots from space. The new map coincides with the society's current campaign for geographic literacy, and it comes just in time. A recent Gallup poll showed that 3 out of 10 Americans cannot distinguish north from south...