Word: encyclopedia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...common phrase heard around TIME's editorial offices in London, especially late on Saturday nights when we were frantically trying to close the magazine, was: "Ask Penny." Penny Campbell, who died unexpectedly last week, was our very own walking encyclopedia. Whatever information you needed-whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest piece of office news-Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit...
...common phrase heard around TIME's editorial offices in London, especially late on Saturday nights when we were frantically trying to close the magazine, was: "Ask Penny." Penny Campbell, who died unexpectedly last week, was our very own walking encyclopedia. Whatever information you needed - whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest scrap of office gossip - Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit. In Hong Kong, where Penny was an associate editor...
...owned by Time Warner) has worked with shows like Big Brother and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on advertising cross-promotions and last month announced it was talking to TV production houses about developing its own online content. Microsoft, though slower to embrace Hollywood, is putting its Encarta encyclopedia on its search site. Even Google, which says it is committed to search, last month launched a service allowing users to look up movies, find local screen times and link to reviews...
...Harvard-run website featuring videos of lectures by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 includes large chunks of text that appear to have been copied word-for-word from widely-accessible law review and encyclopedia articles. But neither Gross nor the other lecturer featured on the site, Higgins Professor of Mathematics Joseph D. Harris, played any role in creating the webpage, which was designed in 2001 to make the two professors’ popular Core course, Quantitative Reasoning 28: “The Magic of Numbers,” available to alumni...
...initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article on cryptography...