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...selling author and director of Harvard's W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, "is one of the nation's leading black intellectuals," Turner said. One of his current projects is the completion of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of black culture and history that will be published in CD-ROM form in mid-January and in book form next September...
Like Gates, Eck has used a multimedia approach to reach audiences. The Pluralism project, which hired Harvard students as researchers, produced the CD-ROM On Common Ground: World Religions in America. It documents the "growing religious diversity across the United States" since 1965, when immigration quotas were significantly relaxed, Eck said. The CD-ROM is now in wide use at the collegiate and secondary school levels...
...also became the beneficiary of that tradition, since thousands of freeware programs originally written to run on Unix also run on Linux. A CD-ROM loaded with Linux and a library of software can be purchased for $49 from Red Hat Software in Durham, N.C., or downloaded for free on the Net www.linuxresources.com) There is even a Windows-type front end that makes Linux a little easier for ordinary mortals to use. Today the number of machines running Linux is estimated at 7 million...
...least, that's how it seems, based on how IBM's new ThinkPad i Series turned out. The company's first consumer-targeted notebooks, due out next month, are priced at $1,499, $1,999 and $2,499. All have active-matrix color screens, 56K modems and 20X CD-ROM drives. And inch-wide Altec-Lansing stereo speakers...
...CD-ROM player itself, at 20X, is fast enough to run most software. I was able to stalk deer in the hills of Pennsylvania playing Deer Hunter II, though installing the game and loading it seemed to take forever compared to how long my 30X desktop machine needed. The 13.1-in. screen was certainly a pleasure to look at, but the big-screen contributed to a package that weighed in at a sumo-like 7.7 lbs. That's way too heavy for a wimp like me to lug around every...