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...networks herald the end of search? I wouldn't go that far. What may be in danger, however, is the serendipitous nature of search - for example, the gratuitous queries that we type into Google while we're on hold with India, waiting for tech support to solve our issue du jour. But, now, when we have idle time, we don't go to Google anymore; we go to Facebook. And on Facebook, we don't have to seek information. Instead, information just comes...
...eight-volume encyclopedia compiled by Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and composed of over five centuries of African-American history, from the arrival of the first slaves on the continent to the rising career of Barack Obama, made its debut on bookstore shelves earlier this week...
Gates, who is the director of the Du Bois Insititute, said he was first inspired to tackle this project when he looked through the American National Biography and found gaps in the coverage of prominent blacks in American history. He said he consulted Higginbotham and they began work on the encyclopedia...
Gates, who is the director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, said he wanted to channel this barbershop atmosphere in “The Root,” an online magazine he launched Monday...
...Sunday paper Journal du Dimanche ran a front-page photo of Sarkozy and Bruni together under the headline "They're Getting Married! The 9th of February?" The accompanying story offered details of the diamond-studded ring Sarkozy slipped on Bruni's finger as he proposed to her, along with an eye-batting reply that would have given even Barbara Cartland the vapors ("Monsieur le President, I have no reason to refuse you"). The story ends on a similarly schmaltzy note, promising readers, "If you loved Grace Kelly in Monaco, you'll adore Carla Bruni in the Elys...