Word: mapping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Survivor's races and bug-eating contests, not to mention its million-dollar endgame. (Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture, says this "shows that the programmers don't think human interaction itself is dramatic.") But Survivor functions as drama, if not art, because we can map its petty squabbles and triumphs on our own lives. Those mismatched 16, working together, then looking out for No. 1, could be your co-workers, your family...
...tasteful and forward-thinking is the Main Library that it's almost possible to overlook its biggest lack--books. Bookshelves seem like an afterthought amid the "centers" and galleries that line the building, so much so that the stacks are omitted entirely from the map distributed at the information desk. The entire general fiction collection, for instance, is contained in one row of bookshelves along a single wall. While the Main claims about a million books, most are hidden away in special compact stacks accessible only to staff members, or in underground storage areas from which titles must be specially...
...those of you who come to Harvard from more foreign lands may be a bit apprehensive putting your fate in the hands of a cabbie and a AAA street map. So, for the uninitiated, a short guide to Boston and the surrounding area...
...Draw a freehand map of the world. Fill in the capital cities, heads of state, principal industries and most important crops...
...handkerchief on a 1993 cover of Emerge magazine. That shocking image outraged Thomas' supporters, of course, but it crystallized the disgust that many African Americans had begun to feel about the ultraconservative legal philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court's only black member. It also put Emerge on the map. "It let people know there was nothing and no one we were afraid to take on," says Curry. "A lot of people in the black community say we shouldn't air our dirty laundry in public. I say, 'Give me your dirty laundry.' If Emerge, an African-American newsmagazine...