Robert Nash, Glaxo's director of U.S. environment health and safety, previously worked in an enclosed office, decorated with photos and a map of the North Carolina coastline.

WSJ: Warming Up to the Officeless Office

Despite that, most powerful Indian earthquakes tend to occur towards the north of the subcontinent (see map).

ECONOMIST: Earthquakes in India

It was a foundation member, Brent Lane, a business professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the John White map.

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But it was the first large-scale map of North America.

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"France welcomes the unanimous adoption by Mali's parliament of the road map for the transition, which makes provision for the holding of elections and the opening of negotiations with the north, " the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Were it superimposed on a map of the continental United States, it would stretch from Florida to California, from North Dakota to Texas.

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On a good night, this camera will be able to map a swathe of sky approximately the size of the Plough's blade (or, for North Americans, the Big Dipper's bucket).

ECONOMIST: The Sloan star survey

We got on the interstate and started driving north without, of all things, a map of Mississippi, a resource we found was more precious than batteries and bottled water since all the panic began.

NPR: Get Out of Town

Also interesting is the scene of Mr Libbi's capture, in Mardan (see map in article), in North West Frontier Province, close by Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

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