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...Jason Ng, a blogger from Guangdong province in south China, began writing about how to circumvent censorship in China after he read about the government's block on Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopedia. He started by posting technical tips and essays on various bulletin boards and his own blog on sina.com, a major Chinese Web portal. "During that time, many of my posts were either quietly deleted or unable to get published on my blog for no reason," he says...
...junior high school, one of my classmates had a TV addiction - back before it was normal. This boy - we'll call him Ethan - was an encyclopedia of vacuous content, from The A-Team to Who's the Boss...
...diverse friend circle is magnified at colleges because in most campus situations everyone living close to you is your age. “Residential proximity, age homogeneity, similarity and complementarity,” are the descriptors of adult friendships according to the “Encyclopedia of Adult Development,” and in a college situation the first two often coincide...
...prominent chefs and leaders in art and design will complement their research. Each year, the foundation will release a book and video that catalog its discoveries, and a team will disseminate those ideas at chefs' conferences and culinary schools. The fellows will also help Adrià compile an encyclopedia of contemporary cuisine. To accommodate all this, El Bulli will expand. The sleek, airy kitchen and homey dining room will remain untouched, but Adrià and Soler are meeting with architects to draw up plans for an audiovisual room and a library. The two have high ambitions for the foundation, which...
...book exemplifies this tendency. It is Munro’s imagining of a short period in the life of an exceptional woman from history: Sophia Kovalevsky, a mathematician and novelist who lived in the late 19th century. Munro writes that she encountered Sophia’s story in an encyclopedia, and the story begins to read more like a factual entry than anything else. Sophia is a fascinating character and a perfect example of a powerful woman, but by portraying her as a saint, Munro makes this woman less accessible to her readers...