The Boston Globe, October 28th, 2007
OH, THE HORROR! WRITERS' TALES OF 12 TRIPS GONE WRONG Several years ago, a travel editor of this very newspaper asked me to explore how electronic conveniences such as MapQuest and global positioning devices were depriving youngsters of basic navigation skills. Compass? What's a compass? Doing the research I discovered a nifty little device for mariners called a plotter. Plotters spit out instant information about speed and position. They also display tide cycles in snazzy three-color graphics. There is one hitch. Because those cycles vary widely along the East Coast, the plotter needs to be t...
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