The Times atlas, with more space because of its self-discipline about satellite pictures, shows you three or four times as many places in that unhappy country where you might question limbless war victims, looking nervously over your shoulder as you do so.
This time it was not the silvery pencil of an Atlas booster carrying the 77-year-old Senator into space but the great technological temple of a space shuttle.
Perhaps some of the ultra-lean approaches described by leading early-stage VCs like David Grainger (blog here) of Index Ventures and Bruce Booth (blog here) ofAtlas will prove out, and introduce at least a ray of optimism into this vital but existentially challenged space.