Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, November 15, 1993                   TAG: 9311170308
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WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT GEOGRAPHY?

Take your pick:

A. Someday you may be on "Jeopardy."

B. Some people still play "Trivial Pursuit."

C. So you can amaze and astound your out-of-town relatives about local highlights when they come to visit.

D. So you can help make foreign policy decisions.

Foreign policy? Sure, says Virginia Tech geographer Bob Morrill. Why, take Yugoslavia. It's rumpled with mountains. During World War II, Tito and his outnumbered partisans used those mountains as a base from which to stage hit-and-run attacks. The result: He tied down vastly-superior German and Italian forces.

"So the fact that mountains are there, and they're configured the way they are, is important if you're deciding whether the U.S. should deploy forces to Bosnia," Morrill says.

Ah, but which mountains?

For that, see question No. 9.