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...allowed myself to follow a sudden lead: a sign pointing to "Geography." Hoping to find shelves of the world in relief, I followed instead a series of plastic signs to an oversized shelf headed by a large blue book. Setting down my stack I found the book was an encyclopedia of imaginary places: the perfect topology...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Unreal City | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Gates developed the idea for the program while working on his Encyclopedia Africana with Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rivers, Gates Collaborate on After-School Program | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

Forty neighborhood middle school and high school students--many of them "sentenced to literacy" as part of their probation terms--are spending the semester using the encyclopedia and the related website to learn about the Internet, as well as about global black culture and history...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rivers, Gates Collaborate on After-School Program | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...curriculum was designed by Aaron Meyers '98 and is structured around the Africana website and encyclopedia...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rivers, Gates Collaborate on After-School Program | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...their virgin ears. The federal government does not need to interfere, especially because serious constitutional issues can arise when public libraries try to use such error-filled software to block materials that minors have the right to see--a practice a federal judge in Virginia compared to buying an encyclopedia and then blacking out everything deemed inappropriate. One need only remember how the American Family Association was categorized as hate speech to realize the implications of such government mandates...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Heart of Darkness | 10/24/2000 | See Source »

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