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...Breitstein, a teacher at Seattle's Hawthorne School, says his fifth-graders often spend their lunch hour and recess logging on to programs like Microsoft's Creative Writer, which helps children write stories by suggesting possible situations and opening lines. Another favorite is Microsoft's Encarta, a best-selling encyclopedia on CD-ROM. "It's had a huge impact, especially in their writing," Breitstein says. "They don't even know they're improving their skills...
...Project is so important. The goal, says Collins, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research, is to find by the year 2005 not just the location of 100,000 or so genes, but the exact sequence of their constituent chemical parts. If the human genome is an encyclopedia divided into 23 "chapters" (chromosome pairs), each gene "sentence" is composed of three-letter "words," which are in turn spelled by four molecular "letters" called nucleotides -- adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). By scanning a data base containing the complete sequence of letters, researchers could quickly...
...Coach offers more than just instruction in how to land a devastating left hook. Tommy is a living, breathing, talking, boxing encyclopedia. And when he stands in his boxing shorts, recounting the gory details of how he was "robbed" in a 1936 Madison Square Garden bout at the gloves of Joe Ferranti, it's hard not to get excited...
...gang, Microsoft's "Multimedia Beethoven," is also available. Another title worth checking out is Grolier's "Multimedia Encyclopedia...
...which becomes ever more so each year under the impact of new immigrants. In addition to the various mainstream Judeo-Christian faiths that populated the original colonies, America now encompasses 700 to 800 "nonconventional" denominations, according to J. Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of them are imported variants of standard world religions, mostly Asian; the other half a creative and chaotic mix of U.S.-born creeds -- everything from Branch Davidians to New Agers. In the future, says sociologist Wade Clark Roof, "clearly the bounds of religious pluralism will push further and further...