The compass is a tool used by land and sea explorers to help them navigate their journeys. Before compasses were developed, people used the sun, wind, and stars as their guides, but the compass allowed them to calculate their location and direction...

The magnetic compass was an important advance in navigation because it allowed mariners to determine their direction even if clouds obscured their usual astronomical cues such as the North Star. It uses a magnetic needle that can turn freely so that...

COMPASS is an acronym for COMPrehensive ASSembler. COMPASS is a macro assembly language on Control Data Corporation's 3000 series, and on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series, 7600 and Cyber 70 and 170 series mainframe computers. There are two flavors of COMPASS...

MAP OF THE WEEK Sunday, October 27, 2002 28 MONDAY "Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady." -- Academy Award-winning costume designer Edith Head, born this day in...

SUNDAY SYMPOSIUM Compassion, response, alternatives Sunday, September 30, 2001 Canadians showed their compassion My wife and I were touring Nova Scotia on Sept. 11. We must thank the Canadian people for being so compassionate regarding our national tragedy. We...

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Badges? We don’t need no Jeep badges. Anyone can tell the Jeep Compass isa car, indeed, a station wagon pumped up to SUV dimentions, and not a Jeep. At least, not a Jeep in the high-Sierra, mudslinging, rock-crushing definition of the term Jeep. Forget about...